As a member of the VFW, I was able to place a notice in VFW Magazine about our 2013 Reunion in Tulsa.  It was published in the March 2013 issue.

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I did not think that anyone would call regarding the notice.  But – surprise, surprise – I got a telephone call Saturday afternoon from Dale Fleming of Blackwell, OK.  He does not have an email address or even a computer.  He told me he plans to attend the reunion.  I sent him reunion information in the mail.

How the jeep * got its name…..

by Ray Cowdery

Few would have guessed when the military jeep was being developed in the early 1940s, that nearly three-quarters of a century later lexicographers and historians would still hotly debate the origins of the name jeep before it had become a brand name or trade name. Nobody needs to debate the etymology of the name jeep as it was applied to World War II American military 1/4-ton 4×4 trucks, as the genesis of that name is crystal clear. Continue reading →