Man, what a great tribute, Carl. Nice job. I understand your tears when you came to the CBI section. By the way, nice to finally see what you look like! - Gary

Hi, Carl; Another fine job to add to the long list of fantastic efforts on your part for the record books of World War II and, especially for the CBI Theater of Operations men and women who were overlooked for so long. You are to be commended for your dedication to perpetuating history and education for anyone who is interested in this research. Thank you on behalf of my CBI Comrades everywhere. - Wendall A. Phillips, CBI Chaplain.

Thank you so much for sending me those wonderful pictures.. We are planning a trip (RV) to Washington DC in the next year or so. I was there in the mid 1980s, before the beautiful memorial was there. I understand your tearing up.. I fought tears just reading your descriptions. Can you tell me how the "registry" is submitted? I have my uncle's "blue star" in its little frame that my grandmother kept in her window all through the war. It hangs in my office. I remember as a little girl seeing windows in our neighborhood displaying blue and gold stars in windows and well knowing what they meant. Thank you again Carl.. I appreciate being included in your forward and I also enjoyed seeing a picture of you and your family. - Joan

This is touching. Great job! I hope to visit this next summer as my daughter will be serving an assistantship in Northern Virginia. Thanks for sending this. - Leo

Hey, just checked out the website you made about WWII Memorial... it really is well done, good job DAD! - Joe

Carl: In honoring your father, you have also honored the thousands of us who also served with him in CBI. Your excellent page should be required reading in schools across our nation. Your tears were our tears as we also visited the Memorial through your eyes and heart. Congratulations. - Nick Sanchez

Carl, We had the opportunity to visit the Memorial during the last reunion in August. As I sit at our computer tearing like the sentimental old goat that I am, I am reminded of the days I spent with your Dad as his Adjutant Finance Officer while a member of the Garden State Basha. In 1980 we moved to South Carolina and became active here, holding all of the offices thru the years and Commander for two terms of four years. Visiting the Memorial was one of the most gratifying events of my life. Viewing your presentation of your visit, recalled our visit, hence the tears. Warm regards - Jim Sheola

Excellent Carl. Great photos! Best regards - Herb

A beautiful presentation of a wonderful remembrance. Thank you. - Bob Welser, 492nd Bomb Sqn, 7th Bomb Group (Hvy), 10th Air Force, Oct 1944-Aug 1945

Thank you, thank you. - Fran Quitzau

Beautiful presentation. This was sent to me by a friend of mine, Fred Look, who served in WW II in the China-Burma-India Theater too. - Hayden Maxwell, Houston, Texas

Thank you for the tour, I was touched. God bless, Kenny Guess, Diamondhead, MS

My father (Thomas Foltz) forwarded your website information. He served during WWII in India. He's in his early 80s and I don't know if he will be able to experience the memorial in person. Your pictures gave him a great opportunity to see the memorial. Thanks so much for sharing with us! - Karen Mathews

Carl... I was a young Cub Scout, almost 11 years old, gathering newspapers for our paper drive when we heard about the bombing of Pearl Harbor...I'm not certain that I even knew Pearl Harbor existed, and if I did, I didn't know where it was. The other scouts and I could not imagine what it meant. There hadn't been anything called a war in our short lives...what could it mean? We finished and headed for home. It just seemed like a great idea to go home, to be with the family. We heard the President talk about the happening, calling it "A Day of Infamy". We had no idea of what "Infamy" meant...but, in a few days we began to get a glimpse of the meaning...life began to change in many ways in the next months, certainly the years. We continued to do things just about the same way, but we heard about the battles on the radio, and saw the 'newsreels' at the movie on Saturday afternoon. It was scary when we began to see some part of battles, and even a glimpse of things destroyed, burning...even maybe a soldier hurt, planes wrecked...even some of our planes getting ready to fly. Ships firing big guns...a USO show somewhere in the islands. We gathered papers, metal, whatever could be used in the war to help "our guys". We didn't have as much sugar, and other things that made a difference in helping the Americans fighting. In the four years of the war, we kinda got used to seeing and hearing about the war, but it was so far away, had been going on for so long.... I had three cousins in the Marine Corps, one was killed coming over the side of a landing boat. They were my heroes. Then,my brother who is three years older than me dropped out of school after his junior year and joined the Navy...he became my hero then. He has continued to be that ever since. He and I have continued to be that close...the 60 years since then. Since the close of WWII wars have continued to happen. My brother went back into the Navy for the Korean War. I joined the Marine Corps in 1951, spent six years in the Corps, three active, one in Korea, and was discharged as a SSGT, stayed in the reserves. I prepared for the Ministry, went into the Navy as a Chaplain for 21 years, spent a year in Vietnam with a Marine infantry battalion. My brother and I still remain very close. We meet each week, have lunch, talk about it all at times, and express our view points about life, the world, the latest war. It seems like people don't like life any more. There's always a war some place, people dying because somebody wants what another has. Somebody doesn't like what someone else has, the way they do this, or that, or... Thanks for letting me think "out loud", reminisce, remember. The pictures are fantastic...I was up there last year looking at them in person with some of those Marines from Vietnam. The Korean Memorial was so real...if there had been snow...I would have been right back there... God bless... Semper Fi...once a Marine... Bill Childers

I Love you. What a beautiful gift you have given to so many people who cannot get to see the memorial in person. I fill up with tears, when I remember the day we spent there and how emotional it was for you. I am so proud to be your wife. You are a wonderful man and a perfect example of what it means to be an American. - Christine