We've also added Monsignor John Cregan's Message of Remembrance from our reunion. Thanks to Brian Cylkowski for his hard work in producing it. Here's a description and a link:

Company E and its skipper, Captain John Cregan, had the misfortune of arriving back on LZ Margo from a combat patrol just as mortar rounds began to fall. His company was devastated.

After retirement, he longed for another vocation of service.

And he found that calling.

As a Catholic priest, Monsignor Cregan has brought comfort and perspective to those whose lives were changed forever by Vietnam.

A big thanks to Brian Cylkowski for his hard work editing and producing this video of First Lieutenant Tom Roadley's presentation "Photographs of LZ Margo" at our reunion. Here's the description and a link:

Tom Roadley, call sign John Brown 24, was the Fire Support Officer on LZ Margo.

But during the Siege of Khe Sanh, he had escorted combat photographer David Douglas Duncan, who taught him how to take quick, decisive photos under horrible conditions.

Later, on LZ Margo, Tom had to make every shot count because his film supplier in Hong Kong had sent him only one 36-exposure roll.

His slides of Margo captured the action and the awfulness of our time there, of ordinary men doing an extraordinarily hard job.

We've posted another clip from our 50-year reunion on YouTube: VFW writer Robert Widener's presentation "Discovering Margo".

Robert wrote a gripping account about the battle of LZ Margo that takes you onto Margo's barren slopes as mortar fire raked the exposed Marines. But first, he had to discover that the battle took place at all.

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As the VFW magazine series on the deadliest battles of Vietnam was evolving into a book (Brutal Battles of Vietnam), Rob's research led him to accounts of what the Marines of BLT 2/26 had endured on LZ Margo.

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We've posted another clip from our 50-year reunion on YouTube: our Roll Call of Honor.

The title came from the ceremony that SgtMaj John Whirley conducted on the deck of the USS Princeton when we returned from the DMZ. Before he read the names of our fallen brothers, whose faces were still so fresh in our minds and hearts, he announced in a solemn and reverent voice, "This is our Roll Call of Honor."