Hey Bobby, You are getting to be one of the older generation and one of the best! I'm sorry we haven't connected again since the reunion at the shore. I hope you have a great birthday. Take care. Merry Christmas!

Posted on: Dec 07, 2024 at 12:00 AM

Hi Serafin, thanks for your service during a very volatile time in our country.

Posted on: Dec 06, 2024 at 11:57 PM

Hello William, I saw your post about how grandchildren can maneuver a website easier than you. I think all of us from the 1967 class would probably agree that what we learned in our classes was complicated, but we overcame it with daily practice. When you look at young people today, many 6, 8, and 10-year-old children are already using iPhones or Androids. Although I've had iPhones for over 10 years, I still call my daughter when something is wrong, and she fixes it and teaches me. By the way, I am a 1967 classmate from the Mechanical Design class. I was in the Theatre group and did plays every year. I remember a play about Vietnam and protestors. I played a protestor who had a brother in Vietnam. The ironic thing is that my brother was on an aircraft carrier at that exact time off the north coast of Vietnam, where planes were dropping bombs. Two years later, I was in foxholes in Vietnam, stalking the enemy. Mr. Klein was fantastic and wrote every play. Unfortunately, I am a partially disabled Vietnam Veteran and have been living in a nursing home for 15 months under the Veterans Administration. Thanks for your service. I remember Anna Chiglo and Gary Portnoy. I can no longer attend any reunions. My e-mail is vietvet222@gmail.com, and my cell is 609-703-3172. Merry Christmas to all who read this!

Posted on: Oct 18, 2024 at 5:44 PM

Hey there Marion, happy early Birthday. Hope all is well with you and you are staying healthy. John Eberwine

Hi Dean,

I should have written to you long ago. We were classmates in mechanical drawing. I was in combat in Vietnam from September 15, 1967, to September 14, 1968. I was fortunate to come home with only wounds that were non-debilitating.

About ten years ago, I discovered you had not survived your tour. I am so sorry for your parents and family. I had always hoped none of our classmates had to go to Vietnam. Being a relatively small school, I thought the odds favored us.

Since 1996, our 22nd Infantry Regiment, which served in Vietnam, has held reunions every 18 months. As one of the people who helped form our Vietnam group, it fell to me to welcome the parents, wives, children, siblings, etc., of a soldier who perished in Vietnam. 

It never got easier to meet and help them understand how their loved ones perished in Vietnam. Mostly, if we had someone at the reunion who had been a good friend, I would introduce the family to them to escort them through the weekend.

I can't tell you how deeply sorry I am that you were unable to come home and live the life you dreamed of. I am a Christian and a believer in the afterlife. I firmly hope that when my time comes, I will meet up with you and watch you shoot basketballs all over.

John Eberwine Class 1967 Partially Disabled Vietnam Veteran and friend

Hi Chester, welcome to the site. I was in Machine Design so our paths may not have crossed. But I saw you served in the Army so I wanted to thank you for your service, thanks for being there and welcome home ?????????? John Eberwine

Posted on: May 08, 2024 at 4:33 AM

Served in combat Vietnam with 2ndBn (Mech) 22ndInfantry Regiment Dau Tieng 9/67-9/68

Posted on: Jun 11, 2023 at 4:18 PM

Anna, I wish the happiest of Birthdays to you.

Posted on: Feb 28, 2023 at 8:39 PM

Hello Janice, John Eberwine here from '67 I've been reaching out to as many people as I remember to try to get a crowd to the June 3rd event at the shore. I saw you on Gary Portnoy's page so I thought I'd give it a shot. I'm putting together a group email so that I can do a broadcast to everyone to ask them to go, and remind them to seek out friends, etc. I've got Sue Bell-Rheinstatadter from '66 going. She and I were in a few of the plays that Mr. Klein wrote and directed. So if you are going I hope you can round up friends. I'm looking at both '66 and 67'. Hope to hear from you. John Eberwine vietvet222@gmail.com cell 609-703-3172

Hi Anna, John Eberwine here. I am contacting as many classmates as possible from '66 and '67 for the June 3rd reunion at the shore. I know you have many friends so maybe we can work together to get a good crowd. I'm putting a group email list together so I can do a blast whenever we have new information. My cell 609-703-3172 email vietvet222@gmail.com Thanks

Hi Sue, If Mastbaum has the reunion at the shore this year, will you go? John Eberwine 609-703-3172 my email vietvet222@gmail.com

Posted on: Feb 27, 2023 at 6:18 AM

Hi Anna, John Eberwine here. If the is a reunion at the shore this year, I'm trying to get some of the folks from 67 and some I know from 66 to go. Will you be in? I sent a message to Bobby McGee. Don't know if you knew Tom Schneider has passed. Let me know. I'm going to create a group email to send out. My cell 609-703-3172 email vietvet222@gmail.com Thanks

Tom,

Life is so unfair. At the 2019 reunion at the shore, we got together with Bobby McGee and Joe Wolf. It was 52 years and a Vietnam War that got in the way until I saw you three again. And with 2020 covid and 2021 canceled, and me being in a nursing and rehabilitation center from January until September 2022, I was looking forward to seeing you all again this year.

I feel cheated. It took so long for us to see each other and I'm angry with myself that I hadn't tried to catch up with you even before 2019. But there it is again, LIFE gets in the way. Tom, you were one of the good guys at Mastbaum, a true friend and buddy. We had such a great few years, lots of laughs and let's not forget McGee and Wolf!! But I believe you were the glue that kept us together back then. 

Hell, Tom, now the reunions just won't be the same! Yeah I'll see if Bobby and Joe will come this year, and maybe we can search out some others to be there, and we can raise a glass to you and all the good memories.

I miss you, Tom. See if you can save a spot at the table for me when my time comes.

John

1/31/2023 - Hi Sue, I was going to try to get as many as I know to go to the reunion at the shore this year. I should have tried harder to get together after we saw each other at the last reunion. I was in a nursing and rehabilitation center for 9 months in 2022 and I realize if we don't do it now, tomorrow we may not be able. I was going to send a message to a friend Tom Schneider who was at the same reunion in 2019, and I saw his memoriam that he passed away on October 25, 2021 Please try and bring that beautiful daughter with you! John Eberwine 609-703-3172 my email vietvet222@gmail.com