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Salute A Veteran
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110th Birthday of the US Submarine Service
Historic 1929 Hotel Seville in downtown Harrison
April 11, 2010 will be the 110th Birthday of the US Submarine Service. To celebrate the birthday, and to commemorate the service of those who have gone before us, Razorback Base has invited the commanders of the USS Snook Base, Twin Lakes Base and Ozark Runner Base to have their members join us for a combined base Submarine Birthday Dinner in Harrison, Arkansas. Additionally, Frank Hampson (base member that lives in Harrison) arranged various other activities for attendees for Friday through Monday for those of you that may want to make it a longer weekend patrol. It is important that you contact us as soon as you can so we can determine the number that will attend the various events.
IMPORTANT
• Contact the hotel at 870-741-2321 to make your room reservation. See details below.
• Contact Greg Schwerman (501-804-0386, gschwerman@suddenlink.net to let him know you are attending the dinner. Let him know your dinner choice, and be sure to send him a check for the meals.
• Contact Frank Hampson (870-365-0909, fhampson@windstream.net) to let him know which of the activities noted below that you want to participate in. He needs a head count as soon as possible.
Hotel:
The Hotel Seville has agreed to give us a 20% discount on rooms for this event. We have reserved a block of 17 rooms, 5 King Suites and 12 Historic Queen rooms, with the option to add more if needed. http://www.hotelseville.com
Rooms
Contact the hotel at 870-741-2321 to make reservations. When making your reservation, request the Submarine Veterans Rate to receive the discount. The Queen rooms will be $59.25 plus taxes and the King Suites will be $81.75 plus taxes. If you think you will be attending, please reserve your room early so we will know if we need to add more rooms to ensure everyone is able to stay at the hotel. The discounted room rate also applies to Friday if you choose to stay for the weekend.
Associated Activities:
FRIDAY 9th
Bowling Friday Evening
Friday evening April 9th at the Cotton Bowl Bowling Lanes at 1800 hrs. Everybody will bowl the first game starting at 1830 hrs to warm up. The second game will be for the highest scores for each base. The pot will be split in half. The highest scoring bowler will take home (to and for his base) his winnings. The base with the highest average will take home the other half of the pot for their base treasury. Cost is $2.75/person/game and bowling shoes are $1.50/person.
We have reserved 6 lanes and Frank needs conformation of attendees ASAP in case he needs to alter the reservations. Management recommends a maximum of six bowlers per lane. Friday nights at 1900 hrs becomes very busy this time of year.
After the tournament from there, we will go to and check into the Hotel Seville for and evening of sea stories and visiting.
SATURDAY 10th
Continental Breakfast Saturday Morning
Saturday the 10th we will have a continental breakfast at the hotel or on the square at the Town House Cafe (200 yards south) from 0715-0845 hrs. Susan Bower, Manager of the Town House Cafe will be offering those of us eating Saturday morning a breakfast menu on the square before we begin our day of seeing films (next door) at the Lyric Theater. She also will be preparing our 7:30 AM buffet breakfast ($8.00) Sunday morning before heading off to Branson for the day.
“Film Fest” Saturday Morning
At 0845 we will go next door to the Lyric Theater and hear from Vive Allen, Director of the Ozark Arts Council and manager of the Lyric Theater. She will briefly address our group at 0900 about the history of the theater. Next a local historian will give a brief history of how Harrison came to be. Then, you will see two films. The first is The River Flows. It is just under 1 hour. Next is the historical documentary about the Mountain Meadow Massacre. Burying The Past is 86 minutes long. We have asked Mrs. Allen to place a donation box at the entrance of the theater to help out the Ozark Art Council in there many civic efforts, especially concerning this historic theater's operation.
Boone County Heritage Museum Saturday Morning
Plans are to have a trolley at the front door of the theater to transport some of the slow movers three blocks up the street to the Boone County Heritage Museum, which is the old refurbished three story high school building. Roz Slavik, museum Director, will open it for 2-3 hours especially for our group. Cost of the museum visit is $2.00 per person, with donations gladly accepted. (To really study the items in the museum it would take about two days.)
Shopping at Lunch Time Saturday Noon to Early Afternoon
After the museum visit, we all will walk back into the heart of the downtown area and begin a world class shopping spree. Among all of the nice shops, many which will be of interest to the ladies, there are six flea market shops within walking distance of the square, not to mention cafes and coffee shops.
• For those interested in a couple of side trips, some can drive 6 miles down Hwy 7 to the Mystic Caverns. There are two caves next to each other. Tour one for $13 or both for $15. Both are spectacular and it takes about 45 minutes for each cavern tour.
• For those of you that may be interested, Vive Allen can set up a tour of Twelve Oaks Estate, ca. 1922. It is a magnificent National Historic Registered southern mansion, also a short distance down Hwy 7 south. A group tour can be set up early Saturday morning while at the Lyric.
Plans are to return to the hotel about 1700 for the 1800 - 2100 birthday celebration at the Seville.
SATURDAY EVENING 10th
Submarine Birthday Dinner
(and related activities)
April 10th 2010 1800 - 2200
Terrazzo Dining Hall
Hotel Seville
Harrison, Arkansas
Party or Dress attire
Cash bar in the room
Choice of:
• Lemon Pepper Chicken with Red Skinned Mashed Potatoes and Honey Dill Carrots
• Beef Brisket with Twice Baked Potatoes and Green Beans
• (Both include Dinner Salad, Rolls, Dessert, Coffee and Tea)
Please send your check for the dinner ($14.00/person) to Greg Schwerman, 2 Sparrow Court, Pottsville, AR 72858. Be sure to indicate your choice of meal - Beef or Chicken. Call Greg if you have questions 501-804-0386 ***Please no calls after 2100***
After the dinner we will go into the lounge for some world class sea stories and reunion of Sub Vets.
SUNDAY 11th Continental Breakfast Sunday Morning
Continental Breakfast at the hotel or on the square at the Town House Cafe. The cafe buffet at $8.00 will be from 0715-0900 hrs. Since we will have the cafe all to ourselves, a meeting/briefing will be conducted to discuss the day’s activities and plans before heading off to Branson for the day. If the Monday morning Buffalo River water is suitable for novice canoers, we will go over the details of that trip.
Branson Side Trips
Sunday mid-morning (after checkout) we will caravan out of Harrison, up to Branson Landing, a large shopping mall on the north bank of Lake Taneycomo. Those wanting to, can be dropped off on the west end at Bass Pro and start shopping east toward Belk's Department Store which is at the other end. Then, the remaining group will caravan through Old Branson, west on Hwy 76 to the Veterans Memorial Museum. Manager June Tillis, Director of Sales, has made us a special group price of $10.00/person for at least 15 in the group. We should get there about 11-1200 hrs., and it will take about 2 plus hours to go through it.
It has two real surprises. One is wall to wall printed lists of all soldiers that have died in war and they have a large wall display of every patch worn by a submariner. You will be very impressed by the way they have displayed items - guns uniforms, combat gear, and miscellaneous equipment. They have displays of items from all of the wars we have waged.
Next we will go back to Branson Landing and park at the east end by Belk's and rendezvous with the shoppers we dropped off earlier.
The Branson Belle has a dinner cruise on Table Rock Lake at 1600 hrs. It cruises for two hours, has a very nice dinner and a 45 minute stage show. Cost is $60/person. Reservations are required at 417-225-0222.
There is a comedy play at the Lyric Theater Sunday night. Noodles is the name of the play. Those going canoeing Monday may want to attend this comedy play. It starts Sunday evening at 7:30 P.M. and seating is $4 or $10.
MONDAY 12th Buffalo River Float
Those wanting to do a "guided" day float on the Buffalo River Monday April 12th will return to Harrison AR and we will discuss in detail the plans for that part of the weekend events. The movie at the Lyric, The River Flows is about the Buffalo River history and scenery.
Canoe rentals are $40 and include 2 paddles and 2 life jackets. Shuttle service is $5/driver. Weather permitting, the float will be 8 or 11 miles and will start at Pruitt. Instruction in white water - river canoeing will be taught for those wanting some help.
More later about the canoeing ................especially about water levels.......!
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Kenneth Rolland Grable
U.S. Navy
Kenneth Rolland Grable joined the United States Navy the 23rd of September 1948 and received an honorable discharge 22 September 1952.
He was a flight engineer on a P.B.M. Sea Plane flying from Japan to Korea, hunting enemy submarines and aircraft with a total of about 2100 flying hours. He received the Korean Service Medal Three Star; United Nations Service Medal; Good Conduct Medal; Navy Occupation Service Medal "Asia" Clasp; Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Air Medal with 3 Gold Stars.
I am so proud of being married to Ken, not only for his service to our country during the Korean Conflict, but he is also a wonderful, gentle man and I am lucky to be married to him.
Carolee Grable
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Dwain H. Harp
Dwain H Harp of Harrison, is a veteran of the Army National Guard. He enlisted while still in high school in 1956. Among other things, he was deployed in September of 1957 to Little Rock Central High School where he was federalized, along with 10,000 other troops, to keep the peace during the Civil Rights Movement. During the flood in Harrison in 1961, he was also deployed. This picture was taken the year I was born. I love my Dad, and am very proud of him for protecting Americans here at home. He will always be my hero.
Cathy Minor
Harrison, AR
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Weldon K. Clagett Sr.
1st Class Gunners Mate
Gene Clagett & Kenway Clagett of Harrison Salute their Father Weldon K. Clagett SR of Harrison for his service in the US Navy from Oct. 02 1943 to
Dec. 31 1946. He was a member of the CV10 the Fighting Lady touring the South Pacific during WWII on the USS Yorktown.
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James D. Overton
This is my soldier...His name is James D. Overton he is a PFC with the 688th MAC out of Harrison, AR. He is currently on his way to serve in Baghdad, Iraq for a year. He is my oldest of seven and has a new wife, Tamara (3 weeks before shipping out) and a 7 month old daughter named Shayleigh who live in Diamond City.
The picture is of him with his Great Grandfather David Harold Thompson a WWII veteran, who served as a radio operator in France during the war. He is to say the least very proud of his grandson for what he is doing for our country.
I am very proud of him and will always tell everyone that I meet, that I am a "Military Mom and Proud of it!!!" |
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SPC Cory W. Stuart
This is my son SPC Cory W. Stuart. He has been in the Army National Guard with the 224th Maintenance Company in Marshall for almost three years. He is currently deployed with the 39th and is serving in Iraq doing convoy operations security as a .50 cal gunner on a HUMVEE.
In his last e-mail he stated that on his first mission he wasn’t out of the wire an hour and was already thanking God for everything he has back here in the States.
God bless all of our troops and their families for the sacrifices they make for we know what it takes to be free and appreciate all that our military men and women do for us unselfishly everyday. |
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Lance Corporal Michael G Sale
I would like to support my son Lance Corporal Michael G Sale He is with HMH 462 Unit 41091 United States Marine Corp He is currently stationed in Al Asad Iraq. |
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James (Jim) Sidney Marshall
James (Jim) Sidney Marshall served in the U.S. Air Force from 1958 to 1963. He took Basic Training at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. He was sent to 78th fighter wing A.D.C. at Hamilton A.F.B. Calif. From there he went to 7305th air base group (U.S.A.F. Europe) Dreux France. Then he was sent to 47th Bombardment Wing (U.S.A.F. Europe) Royal Air Force Sculthorpe England. Then was transferred to 837th air base group T.A.C. Shaw A.F.B. South Carolina.
Rank obtained Airman Second Class
Received two outstanding unit awards for Berlin and Cuban Crisis
Good conduct medal and longevity award |
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Jerald Stapleton
Jerald Stapleton of Lead Hill was in The Marines, 1964 to 1970 and did 2 tours in VietNam in 1966&1967 at daNang. We thank Jerald for his service to all of us and his country! |
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Tom Jones
Tom Jones served in the U.S. Army from 1961 until 1990. Jones entered the Army as a private, and retired as a Colonel. Initially serving as a member of the military police before going to officer candidate school and graduating as a second lieutenant, he attended airborne school and aviation training as a fixed winged pilot. Serving two years in Viet Nam as an Army aviator, Col. Jones then served as one of the Pentagon spokespersons during the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, and the invasions of Grenada and Panama and then was the Public Affairs Officer for the Special Operations Command before retiring just before Desert Storm. KHOZ is proud to salute and thank Col. Jones for his life long commitment to our country! |
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Brenda "Lewis" Oliver
Brenda "Lewis" Oliver served in the U.S. Army from 1978-1985. During her time in service Brenda was stationed in Ft. Jackson SC, Ft. Ore CA, Belgium, Ft. Hauaucha AZ and at S.H.A.P.E (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe). |
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Garland Lewis
Garland Lewis was born in Pindall, AR and served in the Navy from February 1943-1946 during World War II. Lewis was stationed in the south Pacific on the U.S.S. Omaha and took part in the battle for Okinawa Japan. |
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