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2nd Missile Battalion, 71st Artillery

(Taiwan) Association

271 Shady Oak Drive

New Market, AL 35761

Volume 3

Newsletter 4

December 1999

From the Editor

The first page of this newsletter is being written and

printed before the rest of the newsletter to take advantage of

a holiday special color printing offer. I plan to include

Father John Dalheimer’s Christmas newsletter of 1959 and

his letter to

Jim Telford

in 1961. If Father John’s newslet-

ter will reproduce clearly, it will be attached to this newslet-

ter, otherwise it will be retyped.

New Membership Card

One of our members asked if he could have a

membership card. At that time we did not have a

membership card. Today we do, thanks to the work

of

Dave O’Connell,

who designed and printed the

membership card. The card front is shown below.

The back will have the member’s name and year of

membership. If you are a paid up member, your

card should be included with this newsletter. If we

made a mistake, and you did not get a membership

card, please let us know so that we can make the

correction. If you are not a current member, please

send in your $15 dues to cover the cost of printing

and mailing the newsletter.

New Decal

The 823 Badge of Honor Association USA has devel-

oped a decal for you car or truck window for those who

received or are eligible for the 823 Badge of Honor from the

Republic of China (Taiwan). Those of you with e-mail are

kept up to speed by Lloyd Evans, Chairman of the 823

Badge of Honor Association USA. For those of you not on

Lloyd’s e-mail list, the following e-mail from Lloyd explains

the decal and how you can get one.

“Members and Associates:

The BOH decal is in. This is an outside decal for your

automobile’s back window. It measures 5" in diameter and

while you’re unable to see it’s blazing like the sun character-

istics, believe me it does - when the sunlight hits it, it’s an

attention grabber. (A 5" gold circle with other circles

surrounding the actual BOH, with black lettering on a red

circled background - “8-23 Badge of Honor, Taiwan Vets.