In the meantime, next week's reunion will be pivotal. This past year was the 70th anniversary of the sinking and in my heart I just knew this year would be important on many levels. So much has happened that I had hoped for but never really expected, and it has lived up to expectations. Just some of the people I have met on-line and had phone calls with this year, and next week I'll meet some of them face to face for the first time. Captain Welling's daughter Anne will be attending her first ever reuniion, as will the youngest son of Hugh Barr Miller, Jr., Fitz. Amazing things are to come, and I will be posting during the event. There may even be some photos to go along with the posts.
Tuesday morning it's off to the airport and a week of surprises and wonderful things. We get to tour the Naval Aviation Museum there, and my favorite thing next week will be the trip to the USS Alabama, an aircraft carrier docked in Mobile, Alabama. Big ships, big changes.......
Tammi