USS
HUGH PURVIS (DD709)
REUNION ASSOCIATION (HPRA)
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"NOTICES"
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A WARNING FROM MEDICARE.GOV
SCAMS TO WATCH OUT FOR
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A WARNING FROM MEDICARE.GOV
The latest scam offers "FREE GENITIC TESTING" and says "Medicere will cover it."
This is not true. It is an attempt
to get your Social Security and new Medicare numbers for fraudulent
purposes. Please do not fall for this. Medicare does NOT cover genetic
testingThere
are new ones every day (maybe every hour). You name a subject and there
is probably one to cover it. Here is one picked up this morning to head
up the general article on SCAMS.
"A call from Social Security" attempting to pry your information from you. This one is directed torwards Senior Citizens. It seems the more senior you are, the more likely you may fall for it.
The main thing theyb are looking for is your new Social Security Number. This linke will hopefully provide you with some more information on this and others.
"A call from Social Security" attempting to pry your information from you. This one is directed torwards Senior Citizens. It seems the more senior you are, the more likely you may fall for it.
The main thing theyb are looking for is your new Social Security Number. This linke will hopefully provide you with some more information on this and others.
HUGH PURVIS DD709 1968-69 -
"A Basic Narrative" (provided by Dennis Dow)
VA Priority Groups Explained
Covert Rule Denies Benefits to Veterans
This
note is the discription of the period covering 1 Jan. 1968 through 1969
for the USS Hugh Purvis DD709. It covers the Boston Yard period for its
regular overhall, dockside machinery trials and othr operability tests.
It moves on the the 1969 West Pac Cruise and Vietnam. Read the full
narrative here... [1968-69 Basic Narrative]
VA Priority Groups Explained
Did you know that once a
veteran applies
for enrollment, their eligibility will be verified by the Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA)? Based on the veteran's specific
eligibility status, he/she will be assigned a Priority Group.
The
Priority Groups range from one to eight, with one being the highest
priority. Select the above link to the USVCP
for the
full artical.
Covert Rule Denies Benefits to Veterans
(From the USVCP) As an
Honorably discharged veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces, you’ve earned
the right for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to pay for most
of your medical care if needed. It’s part of the contract for joining
the military and risking your life on a daily basis. Either
in
constant training or on the battle field, you lived a life on the edge
for your entire military experience. Some of those
experiences
led to injury, and a life time of physical and mental ailments,
resulting in some veterans seeking help from the VA. Too
often,
the help is denied, and here’s why that happens... Covert Rule...
An electronic copy (PDF) of the Shipmate Directory is available to
"ACTIVE" members via email from the HPRA president (email Link).
HPRA
NEWSLETTERS
The next Newsletter will be in OCTOBER -
2019
2019
Reunion -
Hartford/Windsor CT
SlideShow Photos from
2019 HPRA Reunion
Includes the Nautilus Museum Memorial service
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Includes the Nautilus Museum Memorial service
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for More
SlideShows
2018 Savannah ... More Savannah ... 2018 Savavvah Dinner
Reunions 2006-2019
2018 Savannah ... More Savannah ... 2018 Savavvah Dinner
Reunions 2006-2019
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VETERANS STATISTICS OF THE VIETNAM MEMORIAL WALL
There are no noble wars, just noble warriors.
After a period of time, the item will move to an appropriate page. This presented on 7/26/2019)
VETERANS STATISTICS OF THE VIETNAM MEMORIAL WALL
There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished
black wall, including those added in 2010. The names are arranged in
the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date
the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since
the last casualties.
- The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth , Mass. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7, 1965.
- There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.
- 39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.
- 8,283 were just 19 years old.
- The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old.
- 12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.
- 5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.
- One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.
- 997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam .
- 1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam .
- 31 sets of brothers are on the Wall.
- 31 sets of parents lost two of their sons.
- 54 soldiers attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia . Wonder why so many from one school?
- 8 Women are on the Wall. Nursing the wounded.
- 244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War; 153 of them are on the Wall.
- Beallsville, Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons.
- West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation. There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.
- The Marines of Morenci - They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest. And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.
- The Buddies of Midvale - LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Vietnam. In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
- The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 - 245 deaths.
- The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 - 2,415 casualties were incurred.
For most Americans
who read this they will only see the numbers that the Vietnam War
created. To those of us who survived the war, and to the families of
those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain that these
numbers created. We are, until we too pass away, haunted with these
numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands, wives, sons
and daughters.
There are no noble wars, just noble warriors.
