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2nd Missile Battalion, 71st Artillery

(Taiwan) Association

271 Shady Oak Drive

New Market, AL 35761

<http://www.2-71adataiwan.com>

Volume 7

Newsletter 3

October 2003

2004 Reunion

The next reunion will be upon us sooner than we think. It

is time to make plans and commit to those dates, so there

won’t be a conflict with some other plans you may have on

the horizon. In this newsletter we will ask you to plan on

attending the reunion and to help out in other ways, whether

you can attend the reunion or not.

The reunion will be in San Antonio, TX, from 7-10

October 2004. It will follow a similar format to the previous

reunions, in that it will commence on a Thursday (7 October)

and end on 10 October (Sunday).

Thursday (7 October)

The Board of Directors will meet in the morning. Regis-

tration will begin at noon. That evening the hotel will provide

a complimentary Fiesta reception. There will be an evening

buffet. No formal activity is currently planned after the buffet,

but see what we are working on, later in the newsletter. We

will have a very large hospitality room for registration,

visiting, display of photos, memorabilia, etc.

Friday (8 October)

The General Membership meeting will be held in the

hotel Friday morning. The afternoon will be open for seeing

the sights of San Antonio and the Riverwalk.

Friday night, those who are interested, will go to a Texas

barbeque on a working cattle ranch just west of San Antonio.

Entertainment will be provided and you will have a chance to

try your luck with Texas line dancing.

Saturday (9 October)

Visiting and sightseeing (not organized) is planned during

the day.

That evening, a social hour will precede our Reunion

Banquet in the hotel.

Sunday (10 October)

A Memorial Breakfast in the hotel will conclude the

reunion.

That time of year should be exceptional in San Antonio.

We have a very nice Hotel, the Four Points Sheraton, with a

very reasonable room rate ($80.00/night) for downtown San

Antonio. The hotel is located on Riverwalk North. It is about

a ten minute, scenic walk along the San Antonio River to the

heart of the Riverwalk, where most of the restaurants, shops,

etc. are located. The Alamo is two or three blocks East of the

Riverwalk.

The hotel will be ideal for visiting and hosting our

scheduled functions. Balconies looking over the San Antonio

River are perfectly situated for small groups to relax and visit.

Reunion Attendance

We have 65 rooms booked at the Four Points Sheraton,

so we need all hands to attend this reunion if at all possible.

That is a few more than we had at the Nashville reunion.

To get maximum attendance we need your help.

There are two ways to do this. One is to personally contact

those whose addresses we know; and second, to find troops

who have not yet been located. If you can help, fill out one

of the forms on the back page and let us know how you

would like to participate.

Can’t Attend Reunion Because of Financial

Difficulty?

A few of our members would really like to attend the

reunion, but find it financially impossible. We had three

men who attended the 2002 reunion in Nashville with a

little help from the association. Some members who paid

for the reunion were not able to attend and donated their

tickets to others who needed help. The association was

able to help another member, and some members made

donations at the reunion to help an attendee with his hotel

room and gas to get home.

If you would like assistance to attend the San Antonio

reunion, let us know. (The address is at the top of the

newsletter.) During the past year we have had donations

from members to use as needed. We cannot promise

assistance, but the Board of Directors will review any

requests for assistance and let you know what they can do.

Help probably would not include transportation to San

Antonio, but it could possibly help with the hotel room and

cost of special functions (buffet, banquet, barbeque) at the

reunion.

Let us hear from you by March 2004, so that we can

review the requests and give you a reply in June. Also, let

us know if you would be willing to share a room. Your

request for assistance will be kept private.

Reunion Plans to be Developed

Most of you have received the newsletter for several

years and are familiar with the 823 Campaign Badge of

Honor that was presented by the ROC government to our

members at the El Paso Reunion in 1998. If you are on the

e-mail list of the 823 Badge of Honor Association USA

(BOHAUSA), you know that they have made arrangements