June Luncheon is at the National Museum of Patriotism in downtown Atlanta. (See Log Annex for details on location & directions.) Time: 1130 hrs, 21 June 2006. Parking included in cost of gas, as usual; $20/15, depending on dues status ($20 for non dues-paying members and their guests; $15 for current dues-paying members and their guests). There will be no refunds.

Speaker will be a return engagement of WW-II Vet Jim Starnes, navigator aboard the USS Missouri when it entered Tokyo Bay to accept the Japanese surrender in Sept 1945. There are many of you who missed this eyewitness to history account of an historic event in the annals of our nation.

Jim was also present and a participant in another historic turning point sea battle earlier in WW-II aboard the USS Boise at Cape Esperance, off Guadalcanal, when the US Navy handed the Japanese Navy its first true defeat in a match up of surface ships. I am going to prevail upon Jim to relate what it was like aboard the Boise when it fired the first salvo in the battle, severely damaging a Japanese heavy cruiser at near point blank range; and further, what it was like when the Boise took a salvo in return that killed nearly 15 percent of her crew and left her severely crippled. It was a night of heroism beyond the pale for American seamen.

We will have as our paying guests the parents and newly admitted cadets fresh from the Governor's reception at the Capitol Building earlier in the morning.

Let's have a big turnout to welcome the latest members of the Long Gray Line from Georgia.

RSVP NLT 16 June 2006