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18th Artillery Group Reunion 2008

Was held in Springfield, Illinois

on September 17th thru the 21st

 

 

3rd of the 18th Women chatting Civil War characters Civil War characters Crowd gather for civil war reenactment Crowd gather for civil war reenactment Civil war reenactment Awards Ceremony Awards Ceremony Recognition Awards Awards Ceremony Service Awards Ceremony Al and Julie Palafox, The Whites, Sal Mattina, Tony Mireles - Nice Back! Allen Brown - Dorthy Amy Larson, Sarah Martin Apley, Ted Cogut & Wife Ilene, J Tomaro, Statum in Rear... Said, Cogut! You Sent us to Nam! Ay Chi Waa Waa, All Senoritas! Mary Vipond Says Lets Eat Barbara White says, Chester, Where We going? Bernie & Mary Vipond, Sarah Martin Carl Lonley For Alabama

3rd of the 18th Women chatting

3rd of the 18th Women chatting

Photo Set 1
Photo Set 2
Photo Set 3
Photo Set 4
Photo Set 5
Stragglers

 

   

Additional Information & Links of Interest:

 

Springfield Web Site:

http://www.springfield-il.com/government.php

 

ww2il.com, the official website of the World War II Illinois Veterans Memorial located in Springfield, Illinois.

 

Springfield Convention Center and Visitors Bureau

 

Flag's flew high and proud at Illinois Reunion.

The 553 and 3/18 together!


 

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The 114th Illinois Volunteer
Infantry Regiment

The 114th Illinois performs a formal retreat ceremony at the Lincoln Tomb on Tuesday nights at 7:00 p.m. during the summer months and as I stated, we will be having our dress rehearsal on Tuesday, May 27 at 7.  We also present colors for events such as yours and were the Honor Guard for the Governor of Illinois for his announcement and groundbreaking for the new A. Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.  Our unit is probably the longest standing, continuously functioning civil war reenactment group in the country and also the first unit to be officially reactivated.  This was done with an Executive Order by the Governor of the State of Illinois in 1969. 

We look forward to meeting all of you.

Jim Patton

The web site for the 114th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Reactivated is http://www.114thillinois.com/

The web site for Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site is http://www.lincolnsnewsalem.com/

The web site for the Illinois State Military Museum is www.il.ngb.army.mil/Museum/default.htm


The winner of our
Montagnard Cross Bow
raffle was Alfonso Palafox.

 

 

These are the Montagnards, or "mountain people" - the indigenous Vietnamese tribes people.  They were much like our American Indian's in the way they dressed - women in skirts and men in breechcloth.  This cross bow was taken from Pleiku, Vietnam - 1966, when  an Air force plane dropped Napalm on these tribesmen getting too close to our camp, and our trip wire set up to detect the enemy at night.  This Cross Bow was dropped by one of the fleeing tribesmen and was laying, undamaged, on the ground.   As we went to view the damage, I picked it up - late Feb 1966.  The little tube hold's the arrow's - they put poison on them to shoot tiger's, monkey's...

 

 

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