This was our biggest reunion yet with well over 150 attendees.  Some brought their wives and girlfriends and guest's.  

Tuesday Aug. 19th some of the early birds showed up and got the Hospitality Room going.  Actually people were arriving every day.
Lt. Col. Ray Stewart conducted Oral History Interviews every day for the Marine Corps History Project.
On Thursday we all went to the Skyway VFW Post 9430 for "Hamburger Night".  There we held our annual "Auction" fund raiser.  Seems we did quite well.
On Friday we had a Business Meeting in the morning then in the afternoon we went to the Boeing Museum of flight.  While there President Bush paid a visit to Seattle.  He didn't come to see us, but we got to see Air Force One land and take off.
Saturday was a tour Seattle day.  Then our "Farewell Dinner".  Bob Peavey did an outstanding job with the "Fallen Heroes" presentation.  Lt. Gen. Martin Steel (USMC Ret.) was our guest speaker, and he was outstanding.  His talk had some of us ready to ship over.
Through out the reunion the Tankers of the 4th Tank Battalion had an M1A1 in the Hotel parking lot.  We spent a lot of time on, in and around this outstanding vehicle.  As the Marine Tankers spent some time in our Hospitality Room.  As stories were shared we learned a lot from these "New Breed Tankers" and they listened to our "Sea Stories".  Great Comrade was built.

Hospitality Room

The V.F.W.