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''The Elsie Item'' Official Newsletter of the Uss Landing Craft, Infantry, National Association, Inc ''THE ELSIE ITEM'' OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE USS LANDING CRAFT, INFANTRY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC. JULY, 2003 ESTABLISHED MAY NORFOLK, ISSUE #45 14-18, 1991, VA I I THE COLOR GUARD AT THE LCI MEMORIAL SERVICE (See Page 2) "THE ELSIE ITEM" Number45 July, 2003 Again it's a pleasureWelcome to welcome Aboard! aboard a new "draft"· of shipmates, freshly arrived and ready for service and fellow­ Official Newsletter of the USS LC! National Association, a ship in the LCI Nationa.l Organization. non-profit veteran's organization. Membership in the USS LCI National Assciation is open to any U.S. Navy or U.S. OK, guys, stow your gear in your lockers, get your paint Coast Guard veteran who served aboard a Landing Craft, scrapers and follow me! Infantry. Associate Membership, without voting privileges, is offered to others. New Members: Published quarterly by the USS LCI National Association. John P. Cummer, Editor. Any material for possible publica­ LCI Name/Rate/Residence tion should be sent to the Editor at 20 W. Lucerne Circle, Orlando, FL 32801. AKA 15 David A. McCaffrey, BMIC, Framingham, MA ? William G.Albee, Madison, OH 24 Ronald H. Smith, MoMM JC, Benton Harbor, MI This fine color Aboutguard from the Lhc Cover Washington Picture: Ceremonial Unit made 369 Clifford Richard, Clearwater. FL au especially finecontribution to our memorial service at the Navy 406 Edward DeChant, Jasper, AR Memorial. In visiting the memorial afterwards, we were pleased to 664 William C.(Mickey) Sherr, LTJG, see the pictures and exhibits commemorating LCis. We tend to think, Phoenix, AR not without cause, that for many people, in and out of the Navy, 687 Hassel Justice, GM3C, Pikesville, KY LCis are a long forgotten ship of the far-distant past. We're grateful 748 Frederick H.Driscoll, CM3C, Natick, MA to be proven wrong i11 this instance. Our thanks to the Navy Memo­ 791 Alvin R. Duncan, BM le, Belvidere, NJ rial for including us along with battleships, cruisers, destroyers and 883 Theadore Kroulik, S 1 C, Slephen, MN the like' 952 Emilio Ricciardo, Nelsonville, OH New ForeignMembers: l� We're not sure that the page-by-pageIn this Issue listing of each and every a11icle is really that helpful, so we've decided to let you find some of the LCI Name/Rate/Residence littJe goodies all by yourself - and we hope be pleasantly surprised when you come upon them. We'll use chis space then, to call your 281 Elgar G. Wright, Chief Stoker 1/c, attention to some of the pieces which we think are particularly inter­ Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada esting. New Affiliate Members We're glad to welcome back Bill Ringle, who provided us with those helpful l1ints on how co get m·ound Washington, D.C. in the last is­ LCI Name/LCI Relative/Residence sue. He put on his old reporter's hat at the reunion and came up with a. couple of good stories which we're carrying in this issue. How about a lady living on an LCI? Or about a shipmate who purloins a 366 Thomas P. Seivert. Son of John Duane 1 1 buddy's gal's photo and heads out home to check her out! "Jack" Seivert, Group 42 Staff. Also served on 567 and 627. Colombia, Maryland.G37 Our feature this issue"Request Permission to Return to the Firing 412 William 0. Barnes III, Son of William 0. Barnes, Line" (page 11) re-visits the saga of the LC! Gunboats at Iwo Jima. Jr., Hilton Head, SC Two compelling firsc-hancl accounts came in and we share them with 449 Dennis Blocker, Grandson of Clifford Lemke, San you in this issue. Antonio, TX 540 John France, Son of Frank France, Wintersville, Then we think you'll enjoy the photos of our Washington reunion, OH. so we've included a four-page spread on that. 550 Francie DeCarlo, Daughter of Dean J. Leiter, Hope you enjoy this issue! Dublin, OH 2 Also, those of you who do not get your newsletter because From the Desk of Jim Talbert: of delivery problems by the Post Office or for other rea­ sons, should contact our Secretary, Bob McLain. He will We have just completed another have a supply of extra copies and will be glad to send you very successful reunion in Wash­ one. I will still send copies to our new members and to ington, D.C., and our nation's those who move and change addresses permanently. capitol was as outstanding as usual. The attendance wasn't Finally, it will be very helpful if you will send information very large -just under 400 - how­ on deceased members and e-mail address changes to me. ever we all had a great time. All It's my job to stay on top of those. the trips went well and we didnot hear many complaints. We had Best wishes to you all! See you in Portland! an excellent speaker in Admiral Mru·k Edwards for the banquet and lots of good food. John has more about Admiral Edward's later in this issue. There was Jots of discussion amon� members about next year's reunion in Portland, Oregon, and of our being able to go aboard the LCI 713 after all these years. We are really excited about it and hope you are, too. Donna Lee of Armed Forces Reunions gave us the options Remember!! for our 2005 reunion and they were Branson, Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana. New Orleans was the winner. This will give all of us a chance to visit the D-Day Museum. We who have seen it are very proud of it. It is the finest museum I have seen yet that Your Dues are Due as depicts our experiences in the Amphibious Forces. of We also voted to increase our annual dues to $15 because st of the continued increases in expenses in producing the June 1 and the increase in the cost of postage. We all felt that we could not cut back on the quality of the Elsie Elsie Item Item in any way as it is too important to us. The Life Mem­ bership fee will remain the same at $75. $15 per year At the Executive Committee meeting we had quite a dis­ $75 Life Membership cy�sion on the problems of delivery of the newsletter. One of orn·problems is that there are some of you who are "Snow Birds" who have two different addresses and would like us to change your mailing address each time you move. Send your dues to: This has become impossible to do because of the diffi­ culty in keeping the printer informed of the changes. We Howard B. Clarkson, decided that the best we could do would be to ask you to pay for two memberships and we will put you on the mail­ 73 Grange Road ing list for both of your addresses. You will get a copy at each address and we're sure you can find someone with whom to share the extra copy if necessary. Troy, NY 12180- 6662 3 A Word From the Editor: ing in our little craft, will nod vigorously in agreement with words quoted by Foote as having been spoken by For most ofmy adull life, one of Oliver Wendell Holmes, himself a veteran, at one of the my passions has been the read­ reunions of old veterans: ing of Civil War history. Last October a generous birthday gift "The genercaion that carried on the war has been set aside from dear friends enabled me to by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our purchase the monumental three­ youth our hearts were touched with fire. it was given to us volume set of Shelby Foote's The to learn at the outset tha1 l(feis a profoundand passionate Civil War:A Narrative. So almost thing. While we are per111i11edto scorn nothing but ind{f­ every evening since last October ference, and do not pretend to undervalue the worldly re­ my days have ended immersed in wards of ambition, we have seen with our own eyes, be­ Foote's fascinating narrative. yo11d and above the gold fields, the snowy heights of honor, and it is.for us 10 bear the report to those who come after " Just last night, putting aside the task of editing this issue us. of the newsletter for a while, I finished the last pages of Foote's compelling, definitive ancl h�ghly-readable work And as I read those words l thought, "That's our charge! and have since been in something of a state of suspended That's what we need to do!" emotion as the impact of his closing words engulfed me. Perhaps Holmes·s eloquent words are a bit more poetic And there were passages in Lhose closing pages tl1at touched than ours would be, but our hearts. in our youth were my other passion - my relations with my fellow LCTers "touched with fu·e." from World War n. Foote writes of the veterans of that long-ago holocaust that, whether or not Americans today It was given to us, too, to learn in our youth that life is realize it, shaped what America has become. He tells of profound and passionate and not to be measured only in aging veterans gathering in the latter years of their lives terms of worldly success. and remembering together what they had experienced. We were permitted to see the stormy seas of honor, the Does that sound familiar? bloody beaches of bravery and our charge is to tell those coming behind us what it was like; what was done then so The words spoken then - with little change - were the kind that they can move their vi ion higher than the "gold fields" of words which could be spoken of or by all of us who had and see once again that bravery, courage and honor count a part in World War H's fighting.
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