About 30 years ago my grandfather travelled from Texas to Virginia to meet up with an old army buddy from their WWII days. James “Jim” McGrady (pictured on page 93 of the PDF) gave him this photocopied packet from a Battalion reunion held at the Holiday Inn Motel East in Syracuse New York on the 6-8 September 1990. I’ve finally been able to scan that in as a PDF and want to post it here so maybe someone searching something might stumble across it and add to it or take something from it for their own stories.
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Today marks the 320th birthday of America’s favorite statesman, diplomat, scientist, and inventor. Having just missed posting Keaton on his birthday and Darwin on the annIversary of the Beagle sailing (and my new strategy of working across multiple days in drafts and not all at once) I am setting this one down. So here we go, on the correct day and in celebration of an American who has more books about him than he would have candles on his cake.
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