GOD BLESS AMERICA
Our next newsletters have been mailed and it has all of the details about our reunion in the Phoenix area next October. If you did not receive a newsletter you can see the reunion plans and print out the forms to start signing up.
These three links will give you enough information to make your plans.
You can print out the sign_up page and mail it in to Bob Leech now if you want to sign up early but also remember to make reservations at the hotel.
Reunion Phoenix 2012 Reunion Signup Page Blandy Belles Auction Info
Well Shipmates, it looks like the wait for the USS Edson DD-946 to be taken to Bay City as a museum ship is not going to happen until Spring at least according to Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Museum. As I find out more I will post it for you.
Attention Blandy Sailors,
We need your help in reaching our goal of $5000 to donate to the new Cold War Museum in Washington, DC. At our last reunion we had set this goal and hoped to reach it by the end of June but presently, we are at $2,140. Not even half way there so I am asking you all to dig a little deeper and help us reach our goal. If we can send them a $5000 goal then the Blandy will receive recognition in the museum and you all know that Blandy has an impressive history during the Cold War and we should be mentioned in this museum.
You can send your donations to Robert Leech, 4454 Old Pittsburgh Rd, Wampum, PA 16157
and make your checks payable to the USS Blandy DD-943 Association.
Thank you for your help and God Bless you all.
Well our cruise reunion is behind us now and everyone who attended the reunion had a wonderful time. I will have a write up about it soon on our "Blandy Reunions" page.
Our next reunion will be in 2012 and probably in the Fall again and we will be meeting in Phoenix or Tucson, Arizona.
We have some photos from our Bahamas cruise reunion in November, 2010 submitted by Floyd and Fran Hammond. When the slide show begins you can advance the photos manually or click on the green button and they will advance automatically.
Click here to see the slide show of photos submited by Floyd and Fran Hammond 57-61.
"Wounded warrior gets wheels"
"Click here to watch the video."
Mesothelioma Cancer Center
The USS Blandy DD-943 certainly had lots of asbestos.
We have some photos from our Philadelphia reunion 2006 on a slide show submitted by Ken Lisle.
When the slide show begins you can advance the photos manually or click on the green button and they advance automatically.
Click here to see the 2006 slide show of photos submitted by Ken Lisle BT3 62-63.
We have some photos from our reunion in September, 2004 on two slide shows submitted by shipmates.
When the slide show begins you can advance the photos manually or click on the green button and they advance automatically.
Click here to see the slide show of photos submited by Rudi Rump RD3 61-63.
Click here to see the slide show of photos submitted by Ken Lisle BT3 62-63.
USS BLANDY DD-943 Westpac Cruise 1968 Vietnam
Click here to see the "You Tube Show of USS BLANDY DD-943 Westpac Cruise 1968 Vietnam"
Westpak Cruize Book provided by David Barnes. Video Produced by Vincent Sorrentino
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