2004 Las Vegas Reunion

2004 Las Vegas Reunion Photos

Remember
This table is our way of symbolizing the fact that members of our profession of arms are missing from our midst. They are commonly referred to as Prisoners of War, or Missing in Action … WE call them brothers and sisters. They are unable to be with us, and so we remember them because of their incarceration.
This table, set for one, is small, symbolizing the frailty of one prisoner alone against his oppressors …

REMEMBER!
The tablecloth is white, symbolizing the purity of their intentions to respond to their country’s call to arms …

REMEMBER!
The yellow ribbon tied so prominently around the vase is reminiscent of the yellow ribbon displayed and observed by thousands, anxious for the return of our service members in time of war … REMEMBER!
A slice of lemon is on the bread plate to remind us of their bitter fate; and there is salt on the plate, symbolic of the tears shed by those who wait. … REMEMBER!
The glass is inverted, they cannot toast with us … REMEMBER!
The chair – the chair is empty – they are not here … REMEMBER!

Units


307th A&E	307th ARS with Virgil Jacob

307th FMS	307th HQS

307th OMS	370th BS

371st BS	372nd BS

424th BS

Attendees


Dick & Eloise Arens	Vern Biaett & Millie Lamb	Larry & Jan Boggess

Cec & Maureen Braeden	Earl & Ida Buys	Jim & Carolyn Carlton

Bill & Grace Carrier	Jim & Elaine Cinnamon	Johnny & Joan Clark

Roger & Mary Cronk	Don & Phyllis Daley	George & Rita Davis

Ho & Mary Evans	Darrell & Lois Gallenberger	Jim & Judy Gardner

Mike & Jan Gingrich	G'nell Gilstrap & sons Tom & Col. Jim	Hank Grogan & Jane Shaefer

Merle & Shirley Hahn	Larry Hall	Bob & Gwen Hansen

Tom & Judy Hattan	Dorothy Hill & Paul Gonzales	Brent & Anne Horn

Virgil & Sue Jacob	Harry & Carol Jones	Don & Martha Kellum

Al & Mary Kulikowski	Jerry & Penny Lanning	"Flip" & Sandy Latham

Gene Lee	Janie Marvel	Bob Mattich

Bill & Peg McCarthy	Tom Mills	Tony & Bev Minnick

Wally & Pat Mitchell	Barbara Moore	George & Wauneta Nigh

Don & Angie Nigro	John Ogren	Al & Virginia Opitz

Jerry & Helen Otten	Paul & Grace Palmer	"Pat" & Norma Patterson

Betty Pelletier	Phil & Ruth Philbrook	Shirley Pudwill & Dominic Pudwill Gorie

Tom & Kathy Reed	Bill & Mary Rogers	Jesse & Arlene Sears

Oleah & Ramona Short	Stan & Irene States	T.R. & Eunice Taylor

Nonle & Gladys Timmons	Pete & Wendy Todd	Dorothy Veiluva

Jim Villa & Bobbi Karsteter	Les Walrath & Emile Jensen	Charlie Watkins

Bob & Carolyn Weidner	Wally & Peg Whitehurst	Billy & Jean Williams

Tom Highland

Activities


Utapao alumni drink a toast...	With Hank Grogans 40 year old Thai ROTGUT

Registration check-in started Sunday afternoon	98th BW vet, Dale Osburn, was our greeter!

"It's in here somewhere!", says Vern Biaett	Latham, Todd and the Hansens warm up

Wally tries his new camera	Janie Marvel & Dottie Veiluva honored us again

This was Stufflebeam's first reunion	and Bob Merrick's first, with Pete Todd

Mac, Tim, Jim, & Darrell	Ho & Mary Evans with the "soft" stuff

Too much hard stuff? Bob Jorgensen & Betty Pelletier	The only complete crew: Carlton, Lyons, Palmer

Jim Villa makes a point to George Davis	Flip, Mike, Bob & Stan strike a pose

Nebraska deer hunters sub-reunion	Peg Whitehurst struck it big in the casino

Monday - To Red Rock Canyon	On the bus from Hell - no air conditioning!

Photo-op at the Canyon	Hanging around at Old Nevada

The melodrama was a theatrical spectacular	Cruising the main drag at Old Nevada

Tuseday was off to Hoover Dam. Us old folks still say Boulder dam!	Some got DAM tired

and a stop at Liberace's on the way home	Wednesday, off to Nellis and the Thunderbirds

The hangar is spotless	Do you fly this with the yellow handle?

Airpower!	Our crewchiefs never looked like this!

There's only one crew member?	The shade was much cooler

Dom Gorie told us about his Space Shuttle flights	Pete Todd "herded the cats" at the business meeting

Flip Latham said "Let's go to Charleston in '06"	Flip accepts the Reunion Chairman's Fur Lined Pot

Hank Grogan & Flip Lathem conspire	Pre-banquet social hour & photo shoot

Captain Gorie & mom, Shirley Pudwill	The Bridesmaids came:Sandy Latham & Peg Whitehurst

Dom told us of the excitement of space	Wally & Cec dressed for dinner!