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Yesterday, 2 May '04, a significant milestone was achieved when the "Pop A Smoke" website got its one millionth hit on the homepage. Other pages on the site, such as Visions of Vietnam are well over two million hits and counting. OOORAH!
Without question, the website is the finest veteran's site on the Internet. And it is due to the untiring efforts of one man, Wally Beddoe. He deserves a thank you from each and every one of us. Let him know how much you appreciate what he has done for our Association by responding to this posting, dropping him a short E-mail, calling him, etc...and definitely let him know you're going to be buying him a beer at the Reno reunion.
It was a little over seven years ago when we started our website, at which time Wally volunteered (over the phone, having never met us) to help us out. It was a helping hand from one former Marine (who had been in the Corps from '81-'85 and too young for Vietnam) to some "old guys" who had served in-country. His work took our organization to a whole new level and helped us find countless other Marine helicopter Vietnam vets, who have since joined up with us and found a lot of their old buddies.
Wally is the best! Let him know how much you think of what he has done for us. Thanks...and Semper Fi, Wally!
Roger Herman
Posted : 2004-05-03 10:28
Toss-up
Roger
Wally made the place and Curt filled it with what was needed. I have been contacted by many to try and recreate photo albums lost to fire, weather, moving process, and divorce; I send them to Curt or visions and they all get what they are looking for. I had a guy ask for some pictures to show his grandchildren, that in itself made my whole year. Curt put my cruse book and 135 photos on a CD and sent it back to me within days. I mailed it to the needy brother, what a hoot. This and the words are what everyone come to see, let us continue to educate those who ask, and "bamboosel the rest".
I had one of my line crew ask what the 3 controls in a huie did, I am an OV-10 guy but he won a dollar anyway. I could have sent him to a pilot but he didn't have time for the theory of an airfoil.:p
If we keep connecting on a personal basis from day to day then we will remain new to the passer-bys.
Roy
The time, the inclination, and the where-with-all
Posted : 2004-05-05 18:39
Thanks to All
I want to say thanks to all of YOU who have worked long and hard to keep this site up and running.
John Bell
Posted : 2004-05-06 14:34
1000000 Hits
Semper Fi Pop-a-Smoke!
You have gotten at least two this past week
from Jerusalem, Israel! That's where I've
been since Monday of this week!
You want to experiance people with guts,
try this place... and thewomen are pretty
fine too!
Semper Fi
I'd rather fly than walk!
Darrell Asplund
Posted : 2004-05-07 04:16
