Members of the USS Midway Veterans Association and all Midway Veterans:
USS Midway Veterans -- chart your course to Washington, DC for our September 2012 reunion
This reunion is being sponsored by the USS Midway Veterans Association. Join us at the Crowne Plaza - Tysons Corner, McLean, Virginia, from September 20-22, 2012, for three days of fun, fellowship, and sea story telling. Final plans are still being negotiated, but here is the framework of our reunion. DAY 1 - a bus tour of military themed memorials (Vietnam, Korea, WW II, Navy [including a wreath laying ceremony], Pentagon, and Arlington National Cemetery) in Washington, DC. DAY 2 - a bus tour of historic Annapolis, the United States Naval Academy, lunch, and maybe even a Chesapeake Bay boat tour, if we are not out of time and money by then. DAY 3 - our Association business meeting, and a grand banquet at the hotel to end our reunion. We are also looking at other optional tours to take advantage of the many interesting places and events our nation's capital has to offer. Whether you sign-up for the tours or not, we will have a Hospitality Suite available all three days where you can meet and greet your former shipmates.
The registration form for the reunion will go out in May of 2012. However, you can start booking your hotel reservations right now. We have negotiated a daily rate of $95 plus tax for the reunion dates. We also got them to make that rate available for three days before, and three days after the reunion for anyone wanting to turn your trip to Washington, DC, into a vacation (don't delay, there are a limited numbers of rooms available at this rate for the extra dates). Here are three ways to make a reservation:
1. Go to the USS Midway Veterans Association dedicated reservation line for the reunion hotel--the Crowne Plaza Tysons Corner located in McLean, Virginia:
https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_new&eventID=8120537&utm_source=55620&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10404222
2. Call the Crowne Plaza's central reservation line-- 888-233-9527 (the group block is under the USS Midway Veterans Association)
3. Call the Crowne Plaza Tysons Corner (same group ID as above)-- 703-893-2100
There will be much more information coming your way soon, but for now you have two assignments: 1) block-out the dates-- September 20 - 22, 2012 and 2) reserve your rooms. Tour and event planning are always contingent on having enough participants. The quicker we see rooms being reserved, the better we are able to negotiate the best deals for our Association members. Make your reservations for a day ahead of the scheduled activities to make sure that you and your family are there in time for the first full day of tours and activities on September 20.
Find us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/USSMidwayVeteransAssociation.
Click here to join the USS Midway Veterans Association. The $20.00 annual dues offsets the newsletter we publish quarterly and helps offset other costs in planning for our biannual reunions.
Click here to contact the association officers and reunion co-hosts.
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