Currahee! - Alpha Co. 1/506 Airborne Infantry

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This guidon will fly over the A Company firebases in Afghanistan, then will be displayed at our reunions beginning next summer and in the future. The model is my granddaughter Sophia.

Dan Nightingale and Jim O'Laughlin
Photo courtesy of Donny Carter

Donny Carter and Jim O'Laughlin
Photo courtesy of Donny Carter

Working on the Alpha company memorial
A group of volunteers went to Fort Campbell to put in landscaping around the memorial.

Fort Campbell A Co. reunion
The monument in the foreground is a replica of the original erected in front of the A Co. orderly room at Camp Evans.

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The work crew
The crew of volunteers who did the landscaping: (Standing) Encarnacion "EC" Cano; Elvin "Butch" Kruger; Larry Hendricks, Gary George; Brian Heeg; Dan Nightingale; Fred May; John Lally
Kneeling: Hoyt Bruce Moore.

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Work is done
Not bad form for a bunch of old-timers

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Lunch with the boss
Larry Hendricks, Gary George and a few other Alpha vets and familiy members had lunch with the battalion commander, LTC David Womack after working on the alpha company monument.

Thank you for a job well done!
Beth Krohe, mistress of ceremonies, thanks John "J.B." Brown for the moving invocation.

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Jan and Ray Sowinski

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Door prizes
Some of the loot contributed by Alphas.

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Dan Nightingale
Dan's emotional and heartfelt rendering of his own song was a highlight of the evening. Thanks, Dan

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The missing man ceremony
Honoring those of our comrades who didn't come back.

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Beth Krohe welcomes the new C.O.
CPT Al Lemaire, current C.O. of Alpha, attended with his XO and some of his officers and senior NCOs and family. It was a touching and greatly appreciated crossing of the generation gap.