elsie item issue 69 - USS Landing Craft Infantry

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18 IN MEMORIAM Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends of these shipmates who have sailed for their final port since our last newsletter “Almighty and eternal God, from whose love we cannot be parted, either by death or life; hear our prayers and thanksgiving for those whom we here remember. “Grant unto sorrowing family and shipmates the blessing of your peace that passes understanding.” LCI 1 Curtis S. Blutelier LCI 31 Richard A. Adams LCI 63 Richard P. Brown LCI 64 William J. Goss LCI 236 Joseph Calapa LCI 244 Frank Walton LCI 336 Robert Austin LCI 337 Francis E. Smith LCI 456 Fred P. Armstrong LCI 551 Elmer G. Nicholson LCI 646 Paul W. Ahlstedt LCI 699 Robert J. Morrow LCI 703 Ivan R. Zeigler LCI 746 David J. Schaeffer LCI 804 George F. Hybert LCI 958 Roman J. Lesniak LCI 820 Kenneth Drummond LCI 1012 Frederick J. Magiera LCI 1018 Bernard J. Rohde LCI 1053 Daniel C. Leedy
Elsie Item Newsletters Being Scanned into LCI Website A project started at the Portland reunion by Affiliates is underway to scan all issues of the Elsie Item newsletter, from the first issue, printed in August 1991 up to the most recent issue into the USS LCI Website. We are starting at both ends and working towards the middle. Dennis Blocker, Pacific Historian, scanned in issues 1 through 9. Affiliate Robert E. Wright, Jr. has agreed to scan issues 43 to 53 and we already have issues 54 through 68 on the website. Jim McCarthy left me a set of Elsie Items from No. 1 through 60 of which Wright has issues 43 to 53. Jim Talbert, Assn. Chairman sent a complete set of Elsie Items to Blocker for his scanning effort. Currently 23 issues of Elsie Item are on the LCI Website. Webmaster Hal Bleyhl has set up a separate heading, under “Links” called Elsie Item Newsletters. If you would like to read the 23 issues currently on the website, here is the pathway in three easy steps. These steps give you the Website and you might want to look around if you are not familiar with the site. Lots of good stuff there. http://www.usslci.com/ http://www.usslci.com/html/lcilinks.html http://www.usslci.com/html/newsletterpage.html Or, if you want a shortcut, skip the first two steps and enter the last one in the search window and it will take you directly to the Elsie Items, then you can start reading. If you do not have a computer, you might ask a family member with a computer to show you how to get into the website. Make them go slow and take notes. Then you can go to a public library and use one of their computers. I suggest you start with issues 54 through 68; they are quicker to open. And if you are really lucky, your relative may get hooked on Elsie Items too and ask you “How do I join this Association?” At which time you reach into your back pocket and pull out the folded LCI Membership application, which you always carry, and present it to them. Good luck. OOPS!! With a bit of egg on our face, we need to make a correction from something in the last issue. In the “Sea Stories” section we included one called “Air Raids, Monkeys, and Dogs”(page 12). It was a good yarn, but we got the author’s name wrong. Tim Benton, son of George Benton, gave us this correction: “It seems somewhere along the line my name was switched with my father’s. He was a MoMM2/c on the 752 and is a current LCI National Association member. I am his son and should be listed as an affiliate member.” Thanks for the correction, Tim! We’ll try to be more careful in the future. 19
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Page 5 and 6: One never knows when “bread cast
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Page 11 and 12: first-aid wound washing and brushin
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Page 15 and 16: LCI 653 to be Scuttled in Alaska Ov
Page 17: The Chaplain’s Corner The Power o
Page 21 and 22: An Iwo Jima Remembrance By Nick Gro
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Page 25 and 26: A Good LCI Sea Story— Told by a N
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