Dear List Members, Please take a moment to read the message below and visit the site. >Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 19:02:31 -0500 >From: Thomas Bowerman <[email protected]> >Organization: WWII Navy Armed Guard Veterans Association >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) >To: "Members&[email protected]" <Members&[email protected]> >Subject: Armed Guard Web Site Status > >Our Armed Guard Web Site is probably the largest World War II web site >on the Internet. > >It now appears I will have to remove it before 1 December as the cost of >keeping it on the Internet has just exceeded my financial capability. >Before it is removed I would like to add anything any of you might like >to have in it. I have personal pages for more than forty Armed Guard >Veterans. Each of those pages contain information about the Armed Guard >and most have pictures they sent to me of their ship, their crew, >themselves - both in the Navy and as they are today. > >If you would like to add information and pictures about yourself and >have your page included, mail or email me information and pictures and I >will create your page. Even though I am likely to be forced to remove it >all, I have transferred everything to a CD and update the CD frequently. >It is my hope that the CD will become a historical document so that >people will always know what we did and what we went through in World >War II. > >I have begged for donations until I am ashamed of it but my small >pension just stretches so far. I added a feature permitting donations by >visa and master card but the monthly fee is exceeding the donation >amounts. It is just too much to keep asking for donations. I will miss >maintaining our site as it has been a labor of love to collect all the >data and pictures we have. > >If you have not visited the site lately you will be amazed at how it has >grown. I have also modified the menu as the red background made it >difficult to read. I will be able to maintain everything off line and >continue to keep the CD current, so please send anything you want to >add. > >I was just reading a book and learned that 89 percent of the Germans >assigned to U-Boats in World War II were killed. When you consider just >the number that served on active duty, 94 percent of them were killed. >Our Armed Guard had a lot to do with those statistics. > >Thanks go to each of you for your help in taking our web site to the >present level. > >Remember to visit at: > >http://www.armed-guard.com > >Warm Regards >Tom Bowerman > > >-- >_____________________________________________________________________ >Thomas R Bowerman 814 Springdale Avenue Anniston, Alabama 36207 >"Fireclay", my autobiography. Send check or money order for $14.95 >Phone 256-237-8754 - [email protected] >Fax 256-237-2622 >Web Pages: >Navy Armed Guard : http://www.armed-guard.com >Fireclay : http://www.inc.com/users/tbowerma.html >Order Fireclay or donate by credit card: >http://www.armed-guard.com/order.html >Please visit my friend at: http://honorguard.org >______________________________________________________________________ >