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PRESIDENTS LETTER
June 30, 2025
Fellow Marines, The Washington D.C. Reunion will be here in 9 days. We have 72 reservations at the Holiday Inn National Airport which equates to approximately 125 members and family planning to attend the reunion. Since 95% of the reservations are from July 9 to July 13, we are making assumptions that those members will be joining us for all our activities including the Museum, WALL, Friday Evening Parade at 8th & I, and the Banquet. Our polling data indicates that 40 ladies will be attending the luncheon.
Based on our assumptions, we have contracted two buses for both the Museum / WALL and the Parade activities. We have also calculated the number of meals that will be required for the Banquet and Ladies Lunch based on those assumptions. The conundrum we have is that we have over 125+ folks staying at the hotel for the duration of the reunion, but we only have 80 - Banquet meals, 51 - Museum / WALL trips, 26 - Ladies Lunches, and 60 - Friday Parade folks signed up and have paid for the activities through PayPal or by sending a check to Mario Sagastume with a note of what the check encompasses.
We must give the hotel firm numbers for the Banquet and Ladies Lunch by Tuesday, June 30. We are past our date to cancel any buses with a refund. We must give the Barracks Protocol Office the number of people going to the Parade so they may set up our reserved section with the proper number of seats by July 3rd. We are committed to paying for all of the above.
We are asking y′all who have not paid to please visit our website and do so to help ensure we make this reunion memorable. You will be able to pay at the Reunion Registration table when you arrive if you cannot do so earlier.
If you need assistance navigating the websites PayPal function call
Tony Kilroy at 314-477-8800
or Tim Dunn at 303-887-9275
A couple more items of interest:
1. Those who made reservations three days prior or three days after the reunion and the hotel told you that our reservation code, WAR, did not apply to days outside the reunion dates, contact me at the reunion with your name, reservation number, and room number and I will make sure you receive our reduced rate of $124 per night.
2. Anyone who does not have a quilt and would like to have one presented at the reunion, please give Tim Dunn a call at 303-887-9275 and we will put you on the list.
We look forward to seeing y′all at the reunion and remember that the hotel shuttle runs until 11pm. You do not need to call the hotel, just go to the "Hotel Shuttle" pick-up enclosure outside the terminal. It runs every 30 minutes.
See you in D.C.
Tony Kilroy
President
314-477-8800
