36th & 540th Combat Engineers Reunion 2007

[Walt's Daughter]

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Subject: reunion

 

I stopped advertising in the American Legion and the DAV magazines many years ago when it became apparent that nobody was replying to them and we were getting the same people to reunions all the time. But this year, what the heck, I put an ad in the DAV magazine. Well don;t you know what happened? Well, Ill tell you, I got five phone calls from all over the country, TExas, California etc. BUT. they were all Viet Nam Vets and had no idea that the 36th was in WWII. Anyway I invited them all to the reunion and offered to send them the history of the Regiment but apparently none had any access to a computer.

 

Then, yesterday I got a phone call from Raymond Pankow from whom we had never heard. In fact he thought he was the last of the 36th veterans and was surprised to hear that we are old time seahorses. He mentioned that he was wounded some place in Alsace so I looked him up and sure enough he was wounded January 4th when we were fighting that German parachute Infantry Division. AT any rate I sent him everything I could find and I hope he knows that some old timers some place are thinking of him I put him on our roster and maybe he will stay RUGGED a little longer.

 

36 Engineers are rugged......John Fallon II. Capt. USA Ret.