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After having to cancel two earlier Flights, on Nov. 4, 2009 I participated in the third one.  It was a busy 36 hours with very little sleep, but truly an unforgetable experience for 330 "ancient ones" from WW II. We registered at the Airport Holiday Inn in Des Moines the afternoon of the 3rd. There would be 11 buses, color coded, with 30 Vets to a bus plus several support people.  I was assigned to the Silver bus.  At 5:00 that evening there was a dinner for Vets and wives at the HyVee Corp. complex in W.D.M. At 2:30 AM on the 4th there was a complimentary breakfast for us.  Each bus was assigned an area .  About 4:00 we started loading the

I Have made seperate folders of my  WW II photograhs, "The Lighter Side", "The Heavier Side", "From Up Over To Down Under".  These cover the good times, the bad times and the every day times.  I have decided to add one more folder "The Last Six Months".  Of my 48 months in the Air Force, only 11 months were spent in the States.  Six of them after my return from the S.W. Pacific.  With out a doubt they were the best six months.  Reconecting with family and friends after a 3-1/2 year absence; and best of all - finding that CAA Radio Operator at Page Field. At the Redistribution Center one question on a questionere was to list 3 bases I would l

I was recently advised by my friend "Yankeedog" that there had been a change in how you could arrange "Galleries".  That you could now seperate your "deviations" into different folders (albums).  I have taken advantage of this new system.  My Color Pictorials of our Western States are still my featured ones.  But I have put my recent trip into Colorado's High Country during a snow storm in a seperate folder.  I have also seperated my WW II B&W photos into three  seperate folders:  "The Lighter Side of War" - "The Heavier Side of War" and "From Up Over To Down Under And Back"  The last one being a pictorial record of my four years in WW II, th