2024 REUNION INFORMATION SHEET
Link to Hotel Website
DO NOT USE THIS LINK TO MAKE YOUR HOTEL RESERVATION CALL THE HOTEL PHONE # BELOW.
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LOCATION
The 2024 reunion is being held in Springfield, IL. The Reunion Dates are Monday, Sept. 23, through Friday, Sept. 27, 2024.
AIRPORT
If you are flying, the Airport to use is Abraham Lincoln Capitol Airport, 13 minutes from the hotel. Complimentary Shuttle Service to the Airport and Train Station accessible by contacting the hotel (217) 523-7900.
HOTEL
HOST HOTEL: Northfield Inn, Suites & Conference Center
HOTEL ADDRESS: 3280 Northfield Drive Springfield, IL 62702
FOR HOTEL RESERVATIONS CALL THE HOTEL at the following #:
Reservation Desk: 1-217-523-7900
Rooms to be reserved by each individual/couple. Be sure to notify the reservation desk that you are with the: "(D/1/6 Infantry Reunion)"
Check in 3 pm / Checkout 11 am
Dates available for special room rate: Sept. 23 - 27, 2024
HOTEL COST: $112 / night plus taxes and fees.
Make your Reservation NOW! - You must have your room reserved at least 21 days in advance; otherwise you may not receive the group rate nor are you guaranteed a room. Preferably, you should make your reservations no later than 24 August.
The hotel will open up our block of rooms to others if we don't have our block of rooms committed and you may not be able to get a room if you wait too long.
HOTEL SERVICES & AMENITIES
Complimentary Shuttle Service To the Airport & Train Station.
- Business Center
- Copying Services & Faxing
- Indoor Pool with Outdoor Sun Deck
- Fitness Center
- Complimentary Street Level Parking
- Extended Continental Breakfast
- Guest Laundry Facilities
- Safety Deposit Box Rental
- Ice & Vending Areas
REUNION ACTIVITY PACKAGE AND REGISTRATION
This year we will use the Reunion Package price method to pay for all expenses during the reunion.
The package includes the name tags, Hospitality Room with refreshments and audio/visual equipment, and free breakfast buffet for registered guests, plated lunch for four days and plated dinner for four evenings.
A special dinner and decorations will be provided for our Thursday night banquet.
PLANNED EVENTS FOR ATTENDEES (TBA at a later date, watch your email)
Thursday evening banquet with service of remembrance by Pastor Karen Bordner.
FRIDAY: Breakfast and departure.
REGISTRATION FORM (Print this page or check your D Company Reunion Newsletter)
So here is the process for a simple registration for the Reunion
1. Use the Hotel Reservations Phone # above to make your reservations.
2. Download, print and complete the Registration Form (Click Here to ONLY Download the Registration Form), make out a check to D Company, 1st BN 6th Inf., Inc. and attach it to the Registration form and send to:
Larry Stovall
D Company, 1st BN 6th Inf., Inc.
1408 Timberwood Dr.
Columbia, TN 38401
MEMBER NAME: ________________________ $320
SPOUSE@ $320: ________________________ ____
GUEST@ $320: _________________________ ____
GUEST@ $320: _________________________ ____
GUEST@ $320: _________________________ ____
If for some reason you cannot go on one or the other events, please contact Randy Bordner at randolphbordner@gmail.com for a revised registration price. This is also true if you arrive late or leave early.
DONATION TO D COMPANY REUNION FUND ____
TOTAL ENCLOSED ____
REUNION MEMORBILIA – SHIRTS, HATS, CUPS
All items are located on our website in the Company Store.
https://d-company1-6.org/company-store
Place your order online early so you will have your D Company attire in time for the reunion.
D COMPANY CHALLENGE COINS
During 2017 we designed and purchased the second 300 Challenge Coins with a new design for D Company. They went very fast at the reunion BUT we still have 70 left. If you didn’t get one go to our website, company store and get yours ASAP. We have passed the “break-even point” so purchases made are a donation to our Reunion Fund.
D COMPANY LICENSE PLATE This is a metal standard license plate size and fits on available brackets on your car. Can also be added to other displays or areas in your house, man cave.
DONATIONS
Donations allow D Company to stay in the black and do those extra things we expect: flowers for deceased members, wreath for Vietnam Wall reunion goodie bag, Shutterfly photo album, incorporation fees, postage and miscellaneous reunion and operation expenses.
D Company is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation and all donations are tax deductible. Donations may be sent to Larry Stovall at the above address. At the end of the year, you will receive a letter documenting your donation to D Company.
D COMPANY WEB SITE https://d-company1-6.org/home
This site includes whatever information we have for the unit and what you want on our site. History, KIA list with links to the Wall, 2500 pictures, video from Vietnam, reunion pictures and videos, reunion information and a company store which offers the items you have requested. Also included is the book Letters from Vietnam by the family of Gordon Wise.
One of the most exciting features on our website is an interactive Google map. Part of the map is a listing of firebases and the 700+ incidents that D Company was involved in. Each incident, in chronological order, will link you to the location of that incident on the google map.
Special thanks go to Dennis Ashe who has designed and set up a Web Site for D Company. Each year he maintains the site and makes updates of all the areas that change (and pays all the operating and registration costs).
FUNDING CONSTRAINTS
Your attendance at our reunions is our number one goal. If you are not able to come to the reunion due to funding constraints please contact our President, Gary Salpini, gary.salpini@gmail.com, and he will, in strictest confidence, provide financial assistance. Each year we hear from several of our attendees and supporters and offer to provide financial assistance so we can get more members to attend. This is what we are about, brothers helping brothers.
QUESTIONS? Give Gary a call or drop him an email; don’t hesitate for a second. If you are sitting on the fence on whether to come, email Gary and he will give you 60 names that went through the same doubt and they will tell you it is the greatest thing they have done.
We have heard almost every excuse why you can’t come. "I can’t deal with it, I can’t face the guys I was in Vietnam with. I don’t know how it will affect me. I have issues", etc. Please, please tell us and we will send you the names of 60+ guys and they will tell you how they felt the same way. If you have been telling your “war stories” all these years, sitting down with your brothers, will relieve burdens you have been carrying on your shoulders for so many years.
Come join us, we guarantee you will wish you had joined us sooner.
Board Members
Gary Salpini, President
Lynn Baker, President Emeritus
Larry Stovall, Treasurer
Randy Bordner, Secretary
Dennis Ashe, Webmaster
If you would like to make a Tax Deductible Donation to the D Company, 1BN 6th INF, Inc. 501(c)(3) Non Profit organization you can do so on the Home Page of the website by clicking on the 'Donate' button on that page.
Dennis R. Ashe
Webmaster