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College of the Holy Cross CrossWorks The Octofoil Special Collections 11-1-1979 The Octofoil, November/December 1979 Ninth Infantry Division Association Follow this and additional works at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/octofoil Part of the Military and Veterans Studies Commons, Military History Commons, Social History Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Ninth Infantry Division Association, "The Octofoil, November/December 1979" (1979). The Octofoil. 231. https://crossworks.holycross.edu/octofoil/231 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections at CrossWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Octofoil by an authorized administrator of CrossWorks. THE A~r.il'ltion Dues~ .12 Gregory AYe., Weehawken, N.J. 07087 $5.00 oer vear - $ 1.50 THE NINTH INFANTRY DIVISION ASSOCIATION will be earmarked to Q8Y for the Octofoil Volume XXXIV Number 6 Nov-Dec 1979 HUNDREDS RESPONDED GANG WILL INVADE WASHINGTON I think that it was the Christopher movement that Make Plans now for Nearby is Ford's Theater, used the slogan "A family that The 1980 Reunion where children can see the prays together, stays together." Washington, D.C. place where President Lincoln That slogan has been true for The Association will meet in was shot and, across the street, the past 35 years for the family Washington, D.C. next summer the house where he died. Older of Reverend Edward T. Con for the 35th reunion. There are kids will like seeing money nors. The members of the so many things to do and sites to made at the Bureau of family are men from all walks visit in the Nations Capital we Engraving and Printing, of life, all nationalities, and all could spend days and weeks to touring the FBI headquarters faiths as part of his family take in all the places in addition and Kennedy Center. Not far stayed together. Like many to the near~y cities such as out are the National Zoo, home families some members of his Alexandria, Virginia. of the U.S.' only two giant family scattered throughout the .... ~_.0.~/_~~~ Make plans now to attend as pandas, Arlington Cemetery 50 states. Once a year a call :..ctfsl1.f:;::,,,: Tippie Plunkett sends this photo taken in Worcester on part of your vacation. and Mount Vernon. went out. It was time to return .. November 5, 1960 before the Memorial was constructed. At that OLD TOWN - Suburban home. Someone will not be time a Flag Pole was the site of the Memorial Services. The Late Alexandria, Va., its high-rise Many bus tours run in around to answer the call.' Glen Moore, President of the association for that year, is shown condominiums and fast-food Washington and the new Metro Those who do will be asked to hoisting the Flag. Behind him are O-r) former Congressman joints sprawling within sight of subway is worth riding just to attend the Holy Sacrifice of The Harold Donahue, Rev. Msgr. Anthony DeLaura and Father the Washington Monument, at see it. For D.C. information, write Washington Convention Mass in the Immaculate Con Connors. GREEN MAJOR first seems no different from ception Church, the present SAME TIME NEXTYEi\R the other communities that and Visitors Association, 1129 They meet to remember the 20th St. NW, Washington D.C. home of Fr. Connors. Hun They meet once a year, for a dead, the dead of an honored have grown around Washington dreds responded this year to day each November, this year· since World War II. But the port 20036. For a list of hotels and and honorable war. Over 4581 special rates, write Hotel his call. as for the past thirty five years. men have been memoralized in city actually claimed its place This Ceremony plain and The names are the same, on the Potomac in 1749, long Association of Washington D.C., a stone monument and im 910 17th St., NW, Washington simple yet so beautiful is the though each year may mean mortalized in the minds and before its favorite son, George corner stone of his faith. It is a one or two fewer, the faces Washington, ever dreamed of D.C. 20006. Floridians can get lives of the survivors. Led now, free information, help and rest time when all who are wit seem the same, though they are as then, not by a major general founding the more famous nessing this Ceremony pray more lined and the hair is most Federal city across the river. up at the state's own non-profit with stars gelaming but by a Florida House, located just together for the souls of our likely sparser, grayer. The devoted and compassionate In the recent scramble for departed members. Soon time sentiments remain the same, housing around the capital the behind the Capitol at the corner army chaplain, Father Edward of Second and East Capitol will catch up to all of us. We although they become even Connors, affectionately called long-neglected Old Town along may not be able to stay together stronger. The conversations the river has been reclaimed Streets, mailing address PO the Green Major, who knew his Box 1643, Washington 20013. as his fam ily, but we can in our change only as a man changes. men, of all faiths, intriumphand and the spirit of Alexandria's own way and at our own time "Hey Mac, how's your boy tragedy, in solitude and siege, glory days as a Colonial port HISTORIC SITES - Head continue our prayers. now?" in faith and fear, in peace and has been revived in a 2oo-block first for the Bicentennial Center AT THEIR REST "Put on a few pounds, Bill?" war. Although a central feature district of renovated (201 South Washington, 9 to 5 Again the parishoners of "Sorry to hear about Louise, is a Memorial Mass for these townhouses and historic sites. daily, 703-750-6677) and see the Immaculate were at their best. Ted. How are you making out dead, the participants, some 300 The enclave combines the exhibit on Washington and Lee. Meetings were many to make now?" veterans and their families, are leisurely pace of a small Then drop by Ramsay House, plans for such an enjoyable "Hey old man, heard you from all faiths, ecumenism in Southern town with the charm the headquarters of the evening. Happy smiling faces gave up the rat race. How's the action since 1945. It is always a 'of a tidy 18th-century European Alexandria Tourist Council (221 on all of the workers showed golf game?" simple ceremony, some court. Refurbished red brick King Street, 703-549-0205) for an that they wanted to do "Not like the old days, is it?" prayers, some quiet thoughts, sidewalks lead visitors through orientation film (shown at 10:30 something for us. Thank you They meet because of the old some patriotic song, a lonely quiet tree-lined streets that two and 1: 30), for free brochures on very much. days. The common thread of bugle resounding taps and its of the country's generals everything from restaurants to Parades are fascinating. Men each man's life had its start in echo. walked as children: Alexandria retail stores and especially for like to march. None of the in Fort Bragg, N.C. in 1941. The They meet and remember was not only the home town of their discount ticket to the structions given us at Bragg in war that followed that initiation those who have died since the the apprentice surveyors who major attractions. If you are 1941-42 were forgotten by the 300 became a network of memories war. would become father of the driving, do not leave without or more men who marched a and emotions, coloring the Harold, the Army's best cook, country but also that of Robert your free 72-hour parking pass. mile or more to the Church tapestry of each man's life. was the owner of a meat and E. Lee, patriarch of the Con Start your tour at Carlyle befoff~ the start of The Mass. They meet as men not highly grocery store. federacy. House (121 North Fairfax), an It is too early to consider what decorated with medals or Lewis, a quiet country boy, More than 2,000 bUildings, austere stone mansion built in the family will do in 1980. honors. Once discharged they worked for the Vermont High ranging in style from statrly 1752 by one of the city's wealthy Present facilities may not be took up the pieces of their life, way Dept. Georgian to gingerbread Vic founders. The owner com available. If a meeting place nothing glamorous, survivors, FEARING FINAL torian, have been renovated by plained that General Braddock with a buffet lunch is the desire home-town heroes. FAREWELL private owners in the last 30 and his entourage scarred the of all, then a fee would have to Joe, a good conscientious They feel the tragic loss when years. Ordinarily you cannot go floors with their spurs and be charged payable when soldier from Vermont drives an one of the survivors will never inside the red brick houses but it nicked his fine furniture with reservations are made. This ambulance. again join them. And so, as the is a pleasure to wander the their scabbards when they used would be my way of keeping the Pergi, a kid in 1941 has built convening adjourns, they streets, comparing ar the house as headquarters family together. some of Hartford. hestitate. One wants the chitectural styles and peeking during the French and Indian My daughter is a teacher in Joe Mac, a former Boston company in a group photo, to through the brightly painted Wars but the house is in fine the Waltham School System.