From the desk of James E. Meehan, Jr.

Check back here often for news and updates

The web site has new updated pictures of the LCPL with the canvas installed.

A big thank you to Sunny-Land Canvas, Fort Pierce, FL and to Jim Meeuwenberg for all the help.

Anyone interested in helping find the families of the 13 of our shipmates that were Killed-In-Action,

please contact Jim Meeuwenberg:  iuwg166@bellsouth.net

 

2/23/08

Shipmates, Have you signed up with the VA for your service connected disabilities?

Did you get hurt in any way while in the service?

Do you think you have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

Do You Know What it is? (PTSD)

Do you want to know what it is? And want to find out about what the symptoms are?

Do you know you are eligible for a free physical every year?

Do you know that the VA now pays 28.5 cents a mile travel pay for you to go to the VA medical Facility round trip .If you travel over 27 miles each way .

Contact me or call your local VA and ask for them to mail you the information on what ever topic you are interested in.

If you were in Viet Nam in IUWG-1 you may have P.T.S.D

Check this web site often for important information .on this subject.          

                        Feel free to contact me anytime

                           JIM MEEHAN

To My Comrades
 
I now know why men who have been to war yearn to reunite. Not to tell stories or look at old pictures. Not to laugh or weep.
Comrades gather because they long to be with the men who once acted at there best
Men who suffered and sacrificed, who were stripped of their humanity.
I did not pick these men .They were delivered by fate and the military. But i know them in a way i no other men.
I have never given anyone such trust. They were willing to guard something more precious then my life. They would of carried my reputation, and the memory of me .and i would them .It was part of the unspoken bargain we all made ,this was the reason we were so willing to all die for one another. We were and still are Comrades.
As long as i have memory, I will think of them all every day of my life.
I am sure when i leave this world , My last thoughts  will be of my family and my comrades
Such good men ,one and all.
                                                           JIM MEEHAN