From: Nancy Smoyer
Dated: December 2, 2013
Subject: Yahoo Groups: Welcome to AFVN. Visit today!
Hi Shaun,
I remember you from the time I worked with the Friends of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial doing In Touch. I can't remember if we actually met in person or if I just knew you were the go-to person for archival information about Vietnam. It was sad when that program folded but I like to think we got a lot of people together. (For those who don't know, it was a program to connect families who lost someone in Vietnam with veterans who knew him/her.) Fortunately, the internet came along and helped those connections happen to some extent.
Are you still in DC? I still go there every Veterans Day to volunteer at the Wall. Come see me next year!
Nancy Smoyer
From: Robert Morecook
Dated: December 4, 2013
Subject: March of the Day
Shagnasty!
Just found your email in another account. We used to hang out together at MYF
at Monumental Meth Church in Portsmouth VA!
LOL
Bob
From: Robert Morecook
Dated: December 4, 2013
Subject: March of the Day
That is -- The band takes three great marches and wows the crowd with them.
Here they are -- non- stop!
The Thunderer -- by John Philip Sousa
Bravura - by Charles Duble
American Soldier - by Richard Dillmore [March of the 82nd ABN Div]
Best wishes,
Bob Morecook
AFVN Group Conversations
From: Ann Kelsey
Dated: December 2, 2013
Subject: Yahoo Groups: Welcome to AFVN. Visit today!
Hey Shaun,
You and Rich Boylan were so much help when I was researching Special Services at the old archives in Suitland. I still refer students to your article in the Prologue on Vietnam War documents at NARA. Did Rich retire too? I haven't been to College Park in quite a while, although I frequently refer people to modern military records.
Good to hear from you.
Ann Kelsey, Army Libraries, VN 69-70
Contacting Old Friends
December 2013
From: Robert Morecook
Dated: December 4, 2013
Subject: March of the Day
Hi Charles
Glad you like the music. By the way -- I never did get an answer to one of l my questions for you.
Are you from Portsmouth VA I knew a Charles Shaughnessy there years ago.
Bob M
From: Charles Shaughnessy
Dated: December 4, 2013
Subject: March of the Day
BOB!
A really great link. 30 years a Quaker and military band music still excites me.
Shaun
From: Charles Shaughnessy
Dated: December 3, 2013
Subject: Yahoo Groups: Welcome to AFVN. Visit today!
Hi there Ann and Nancy,
Good to hear from you all again. Guess I'm not forgotten after all. Rich Boylan retired about two years ago and went to work with DOD's 50th anniversary of Vietnam program. Or whatever it's called. Unfortunately, Rich's health began deteriorating soon after that. I don't remember his address but Cliff Snyder may have it. He remains with mother NARA. If you can't raise Cliff I can probably run him down. While I still lived in DC, my home was filled with Vietnam Veterans (I lived only a few blocks from the VA hospital) and the guys seemed to follow me home from my visits. Fortunately, Susan was a good sport about it - even if she did eventually run off a series of business cards proclaiming "Shaughnessy Home for the Bewildered - Mrs. Shaughnessy, prop." In the 90s we sold the old (1903) house and moved down to Southern Maryland. Now I raise deer, or so it seems.
Best to you all,
Shaun
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From: Bob Morecook
Dated: December 1, 2013
Subject: Yahoo Groups: Welcome to AFVN. Visit today!
Hello,
Welcome to the AFVN list. Please introduce yourself to the other readers by telling your name and about if, when and where you served with AFVN, or if you were one of our honored listeners or viewers, and if so, when and where you served.
AFVN - the American Forces Vietnam (Radio and Television) Network provided news, music and sports to the American fighting man and woman during the Vietnam War. When you remember the movie "Good Morning, Vietnam" you are thinking of AFVN?
The function of this list is that it allows you to have an on-line bull session with fellow AFVN'ers and friends, something like everyone sitting down together in the News Room talking to each other, but here we are writing to and reading from all others who visit. Of course, if you find a special dear old friend you can always get their address through this list (just ask for it) and you can send them a private message.
If this were radio or TV, we would call this form of messaging 'Broadcasting'! If you get TOO MUCH EMAIL either ask the moderator to change you to DIGEST MODE -- or if you are clever you can go to groups.yahoo.com and do so yourself.
Welcome back to AFVN
Thanks and Welcome Back!
Bob Morecook/Morecock AFVN Saigon 72/73