Comments about the USS Newport News Work
party
and our next reunion.
By Chuck Zendner.
If your on the USS Newport News Main Mailing list, then you
have already read all about the good times the 41 of us former
members of the USS NN had on the work party a few weeks ago.
And you have seen ALL the picture of the work party that
Dexter Goad and Chuck Zendner put up on their personal web
sites. And you have read about all the fun that was had over
that weekend.
But, even you 680 members of the USS NN Main Mailing list
don't know about the 42 NEW - Never seen before pictures that
have been added to the USS Newport News Museum web page.
To see these new pictures,
Click Here to go to the "March
8-10 Work party Picture Page"
For the 220 of you who are only on this "Newsletter
Mailing list" and not on the USS NN main mailing list, you can
still visit Dexter's and Chuck's collection of work party
pictures by going to the "March
8-10 Work party Picture Page" and at the bottom of this web
page are links to Dexter's and Chuck's work party picture pages.
Now, for those of you only on this USS NN Newsletter list,
and have not seen all the emails about what a great time we all
had, you may be asking why all the excitement over a work party.
The answer is simply because it was SO MUCH FUN, and such a
great emotional high experience to spend a few days with your
shipmates aboard the USS Salem. It's like stepping into a Time
Machine that teleports you back to the days you lived on the USS
Newport News. Once you have been on the ship and go down below,
you forget that it is the USS Salem and you will swear that you
are on the USS Newport News.
The staff of the USS Salem could not have possibly treated
us any better. We pretty much had the run of the ship and we
felt right at home there.
Most of us slept at the Marriott Hotel, which is like
living in luxury. The service was wonderful and the
accommodations were perfect. This is going to be a GREAT PLACE
to have our reunion next year! And having the reunion near the
USS Salem is going to make this very special affair.
From the responses of our shipmates so far, it looks like
we will have even more shipmates show up for the next work party
in September, and a lot more wives are coming. So, plan a great
weekend, bring the wife and join the fun. It's like a "Mini
Reunion"!
Spending the weekend working, playing, and visiting with
my shipmates while walking the decks of the USS Salem is a
experience of a life time. The fact that the few days spent on
the ship helps the USS Newport News Museum and Memorial
foundation, and helps with the restoration of the USS Salem is
secondary in my mind. The enjoyment of being there, being
involved with something important and the memories that were
flooding through my brain is the reason I am going back to the
next work party.
If you are going to go to the next work party, please go
to the "Work
Party Signup" Web page and fill out that form. Although
signing up at the web page is not required to go, it does help
us plan for the event and gives us the information needed for
assorted situations.
Click here to sign up for the next work party!
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