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Hello 765 friends, We want first to expressour sympathyto Dick Lund on the lossof his wife just two weeksbeforethe reunion. Despitehis loss,he did an excellentjob of organizingandhostingthe reunion;which we all enjoyedvery much. We thank him for all his work that he put into it. The highlightof the reunionwasthe Clambakeat his homeon PugetSound. His family and friendsworked with him on it and it turnedout to be a greattime with very good food. Thankyou all for your work andhelp thatyou gaveto Dick. We alsohada harbor cruiseof PugetSoundwhich wasvery interesting.After the cruise,we had a goodand uniqueluncheonat aTeaRoomCafe,it wasvery muchenjoyedby all. Another interestingactivity was a visit to an UnderwaterMuseumcompletewith Submarines, Torpedoesandotherexhibits. We had a surpriseguestat the reunion,her namewasMyrna, shewas King Davenports' sister;Shelives in Tacoma,WA. Kings daughtershavekepther informedof our reunionsandactivitiesandshewantedto be a part of it this year. Sheis a very lovely lady andwe enjoyedher companyvery much. Myma Davidson 1033S. Meyers Tacoma,Wa. 98465 253-566-2313 [email protected] We wish to thank SherylandPerry Schneiderand SueHamilton on all of their work that they did on helpingDick Lund on puttingthis reuniontogether. It wasvotedat the businessmeetingthat our next reunionwill be in St. Louis, MO. This will alsobe our 25tranniversaryof our reunions;sinceSt. Louis is wherewe had our first. We contactedIrv Harris,who lives in St. Louis andhe will put it together.If you may contacthim. you haveanythingthat you'd like to help with or suggestions, Our bestwishesto all of you, Audrev. Bob and Dan Kalan

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Dear Audrey, Dan and Bob, We thought it is about time that we senda short communiqueto the group sincewe haven't written for months.SinceBill can't get aroundtoo well, wo are limited in our ability to travel at length. Therefore,we find it impossibleto plan to attendthe reunion this year. A sadlossfor us, indeed!! For we really miss all of our friends from the 765th.Luckily, we still get to visit with Frank and Evelyn Rowe sincewe live so closetogether.It's always fun to be with them. We haven't heard a thing from Mr. Ha for over two yearsnow. So, it is with greatregret that we must drop his membership.We have no idea what has happenedto him. It is likely that he has joined our fallen comrades,but we can't be sure. We will be sendinga note and our duesto Bill and Billie this week so that we may remain membersof our group. We hope all that are planning to attendthe reunion have a gloriously good time and return home safely. You three take good care of eachother and thanksfor all of vour hard work.

As Ever, Trif, Carole,Bill Rothfuss

24 Timber Lane NewingtonCT 061l l June30.2009 Hello Bob, Audrey and Dan It's heensometime sinceI've writtEnto you. The e-mailsyou sendalangkeepus in touch^but it's not quite the sameasa letterI wasn't awarethat thereis an outfit calledKorea Veterans,The Graybeards. I'rn sureyou rememberJohnMalay who editedthe Newsletterbeforeyou took on the taskwhen John left the group. He is now a memberof the Graybeardsandreceivestheir news lettcr. John sentme the enclosedarticle from their newslctter.It was writtcn by a member,Sgl. Hall, a namewhich I recognizehut can't place?651h Also enclosedis a copy of my replyto Johnin which I commenton the articleand reminisceon tho earlydaysof the ?65thPerhapsyou and someof the groupthat regularly attendthe reunionswere in the arrival on Christrnas1950. I just found, while cleaningout my deskthe enclosed5 photographsthat I took of the backshopsand the truck railer I mentionin my letterto John. It looks like they were taken in the spring of 1951. Notesare on the backof eachphcto. The pictureof Captain Tarrant,the baualionAdjutant Officer wastakenin the doorwayto Lt. Cal Hank's office, the BattalionCommanderat that time. At leastI've written somethinghopefully of interest. Physicalconditionagaineliminatesrny long distancetravelingso I won't makethe reunionin Washington. A greatplace. I wasput on TDY at Ft. Newton in downtown Seattlefor 30 daysowith a classA pas$,so I wasableto get aroundl evenin the dnzzle, and hit all the clubs andjazz venuesbeforeI shoppedout. lt can only havegottenbetterand ['m sureall who attendwill havea tnernorabletime. With the prograrnDick Lund hassetup. EnoughBS. Josieand I hope that you, Audreyand Dan will be pas$edyou physical problemshavea wondert-ulsurnmerand enjoy W*shington.

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F u n n v h o w a n a r t i c l e s u c h a s t h i s b r i n q s b a c k m e m o r i e s .R e d r u l l e r a n d i u s e d t o n l a v q i n r u m m vi n t h e l a o t o r p o o l o f f i c e . l l a y b e y o u ' l l r e m e m b e rt h a t i r e d - h e d 5 k i d - s a n d h i s w i f e a n d t h e k i d s l i V e a t scofieJd garracks in uawaii. He never got paid and r swore that I would find out why. His records were 1ost, and in a'll the time we were in Korea, r never did get the answer. . t - h er a i l e r s t h a t u a l l d e s c r i b e d w e r e u s e d a l l t h e t i m e . R e d a l s o p u t railers on a 3/4 ton truck and we used to go up track to the various RTo's we operated before the 714 operatinq Bn came in. rt's how we paid the glys working the RTos. Red drove-and the pay officer and r w e n t a l o n g . r t h i n k y o u c a m ew i t h u s o n s e v e r a l o c c a s i o n s . There is one error in Hall's recountinq. r think that you and I joined the.765th in Seoul on the day the outfit wqs pul-l'ing.back to pusan since the chinese were attackinq north of seoul and we wanted to relocate to the shops in pusan-to avoid being taken over by the chinese. r had taken over Personnel from touis racopetti around the LSth of oecember when the medics found out that touis had diabetes and invalided him home. rhe christmas arrival that brought us up to strength was a mess.r g o t a c a l l f r o m 3 d T M R Si n t a e g u t h a t 2 5 0 m e nw e r e c o m i n g i n . T h e s e t e had were RA's and f r e r e p r i m a r i l y d r a f t e e s s i n c e t h e c o m p l e m e nw reservists. lil nans didn't have any idea as to what n-rothe men w o u J da r r i v e . S o , n e d r u l ' l e r a n d r g o t j e e p s w i t h w a l k i e t a l k i e s d i s p a t c h e d t o a l i t h e l o c a l R T o s . r h e f i n a l l y c a m ei n a b o u t 2 : 3 0 p t v l at the RTo in eusongin. rhey hadn't eaten, but the 765th Mess sgt put out a great crisatmas for them. t could go on ad finitum.

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Good to hear from you. Josie and t trust doing well. Have a wondderful summer.

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I was always taught to respect my elders, But it keepsgetting harder tofind one. The irony of lfe is that, by the time You're old enoughto lwtowyourway around, yott're not going anwhere. Frustration is trying to find your glasseswithout your glasses. Aspire to inspire before you expire.

March/April Mystery Photos Re the "Mystety Photo A" that appeated in the March/Apt'il issue aJ'TheGraybcards,p. 48. I knorv exactly what it is. It is a picture of a U.S. rnilitary ambulance.lf you will look carefully, you will see stretcher mountings attachedto tlre sides of the arnbulance.The rvheeis are florn a raiiroad car and it is a rniddle-size older passengerbus that runs on rails. I know becauseI rvas a passellgeron one in May or J u n e1 9 5 3 .

7-16/09 Dear Bob, Audrey & Dan

The laihnad line ran frorn up north to Seor.rl,South Korea and enabled the rnedics to transport badly injured soldiers who could not be treated in field hospitals. Plus, it could transport perhaps6 or 7 wounded.It also had a bus en{:ineand shifted as if it were a regularbus.

Hello from Tennesse! Got the nice newsletter and note about your recent hospital stay. This was a real surpriseto us. I would have sent you a get well card had I known sooner.I'm sure glad you're doing okay, and like I will never forget that ride. We made it in aboutone-and-a-half hours to Scoul. Since it was so close to the ceascfire. the ambu- us, still planning on making the reunion. I'm really looking forward to it. I'm afraidour groupwill be lance nr.ayhave been discontinued soon after Jnne or July 1953. small this year; but it doesn't take a lot of people to Hope this notc clears up that mystery. have a good time. I need to get our reservationsat SFC Ray L. Hunter, 4024 Main Street, the hotel. I haven't done it yet. Alexandria. YA22309 Take care of yourself no more colds for Audrey and tell Dan he has to stay well towatch over you and his Mom. Love to all Bill & Billie

Dear Audrey, Bob, Dan

It lvas a bus/ambulance I rvas in an advance party of the 765th TRSB (Transportation Railway Shop Bn.), wirich consistedof 32 rnen. We arrived in Korea on or about Labor Day 1950. The rest of the men came in on Chrisfinas Day. One of those men turned out to be an old friend, Ed Spangenberg,of Porl Jeruis, NY. Anyway, we did rnany things and kept real busy during that fall and very cold, cold, cold winter. We had a lnotor pool sergeant, Howard "Red" Fuller. The roads were terrible, so Red put a set of railroad wheels on a %as P-5 I s and Corsairs,this 4x4 was .Jon^Other than aimlanes.su-ch thc tastesttransportationin Korea. Sorneonegot tt.," idea of putting rail units on buses.I do not ktto'uvif we converted fifteen or. tnore of these buses and used thern as ambulances.They could use the rails up close to the front, raise their rail wheels, turn the vehicle around at a'y roacl crossing, re-align the bus, put down the railers, and travel the rails with rvonnded back to a rear hospital a great deal faster than legular ambulancescould on the roads. I don't knorv what outfit did the interior work on the buses. They rvere not fancy, but they were fast and practical. Arthur C. Hall (Sgr), 40 Center Sireet, Waterloo,NY 13165, (315) s39-2969

Sorrv but we have to miss the reunion. Don's 60thclass reunion is the sameweek-end.He's committed to it. Hope you are both well, we ate great. Anxious to seewhere reunion will be next year. Have fun. Love, Jinny & Don

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capturedfor futuregenerations.Historyis not merelya collectionof individualexperiences, they are lessonslearnedfor those involvedin solvingthe logisticalproblemsof todayand the future. The TransportationMuseumproveda majorattractionfor not onlythe MRS Veteransbut the generalpublicas well. For this yearsTC Week,the Transportation Museumwas able to completeseveralnew railexhibitsas part of it's ongoingeffortsto overthe of all modesof ArmyTransportation captureand displaythe accomplishments years. TC Week representeda Fort Eustishomecomingfor the MRSVeteransin attendancewho exploredthe installationrefreshingtheir knowledgeof the rail networkand facilities,location of their long gone WWll woodenbarracks,and otherfacilities.A surprisefind for one veteranwas the Museum'shospitalcar (awaitingrestoration)storedbehindthe MG Carl Gray Rail Shop. His last assignmentat Fort Eustisin the early 1950swas as a memberof the team conduetingoperationaltestson this classof car. Fridaymorningthe group participatedin a "staff ride"to Portsmouthto tour Maersk'soceanand Commonwealth complex.This stateof the art complexnot Railwayservedon dock intermodalterminals only handlesstandardcontainersbut has also beenconfiguredto be ableto handle oversizedcargoand vehiclesto includemilitary. In additionto the Fort EustisConference,five MRS unitscontinueto hold individually sponsoredreunions.The 749thROBheldit'sreunionin Columbus,OH, in midAugust and the 712thTROBwill be meetingfrom August30ththroughSeptember3th in Green DC,fromthe 10th Bay,Wl. In Septemberthe 729thRQBwill be meetingin Washington, throughthe 12thwhilethe 765thTR$B will be meetingin Salt LakeCity,UT,fromthe 16th throughthe 18th. From October3rd throughthe 7th the 732ndROBwill be meetingin FL. Jacksonville, lf you plan to be in any of these areaswhentheseunitsare meeting,seriouslyconsider stoppingin and thankingthese"greatestgeneration"Army railroadersfor theirserviceto our country. Overall,both participantsand organizerswere satisfiedwith the conferenceresultsto the pointthey want to do some railorientedeventin 2010.Theirdoesseemto be $ome increasein carrier/ militaryactivities.The BNSFoperateda militaryappreciationpassenger trainfor severalWyoming,Montana,and NorthDakotaAir Forcebaseslast year and plans to repeatagainthis Fall. C$X has scheduleda militaryappreciationday at Jacksonvillein Corpspersonnel.I Novemberwhichwill includeinvolvementof Fort EustisTransportation were able as well as those who personally veterans, those MRS both would like to thankthe who were unableto attend,for their interestin this undertakingand their manycontributions to includedonationof memorabiliaand helpingidentifyadditionalveterans.As you can imaginethe abilityto travelis becominga majorissuefor this generationof veterans"The ATMFis continuingits effortsto identiffadditionalMRSVeteransand desiresto establisha communicationlink via newsletteradvisingof museumactivitiesand futureevents. And finally,a sincerethankyou to all, boJhmilitaryand civilian,who contributedto the formal program,relatedactivities,and administrative supportthat madethis conferencepossible. Mark Metz (717) 597-2636

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