17. August 2009 by admin.

Beef & Beer at Lighthouse Point Restaurant ( 5101 Shawcrest Rd, WildWood ( 609) 522-7447)

Sept. 11, 2009  8-12 pm

Featuring WIBBAGE FM 94.3 radio personalities

Rick Rock & “Philly” Bill Culp playing all your favorite sounds.

Special guest stars: “1910 Fruitgum Company” & Kenny Jeremiah of “Soul Survivors” plus many other surprise guests!

Tickets are $22 per person and are available at: Harley Davidson-Wildwood; Philly Pretzels, Rio Grande

Heart to Heart Florist and at the Forgotten Warrior at the County Airport

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16. August 2009 by admin.

Nicholas Martino created landscaping all around the perimeter of the Forgotten Veteran’s Vietnam Museum here and poured a concrete pad in front on the main entrance as part of work to become an Eagle Scout. Martino started by put- a
ting down four-by-four boards and filled the newly  -created beds with topsoil and of low, maintenance shrubs.

Martino, 16, a Midlletownship High School student is a Life Scout in Dennisville Troop 56

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16. June 2009 by admin.

The troops came home to the Forgotten Veterans Vietnam Museum here 41 years after the war on June 13.
It was a reunion of helicopter pilots and gunners from 121st Assault Helicopter Company known as the Soc Trang Tigers.

The unit gets together yearly alternating between Ft. Rucker, Alabama and other locations. It was the first time the men saw the completed Forgotten Veterans Museum which features helicopters, trucks, uniforms, medals and photos. Participants came from as far away as California.

The mission of the 121st was to provide aerial transportation for the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam. The unit, which began at Da Nang, relocated to Soc Trang, in September 1962 and by so doing became the first Army helicopter company in the Mekong Delta.

Their tie to the museum is its founder Tom Collins who was a helicopter door gunner in the unit from 1967 to 1968.
“We never got a welcome home,” he said. “This is sort of like a welcome home.”

An electronic traffic sign welcomed members driving to the museum with the words “Welcome Home Soc Trang Tigers.”

A 60-foot by 20-foot mural painted on a wall of a storage building was unveiled depicting the work of the 121st. Dick King, who created the artwork with Dorsey Kern, said the mural represented about eight months of work.

“The detail and the numbers on the helicopters are duplicates of equipment they used in Vietnam at that time,” he said.

The mural shows sandbagged dugouts with “grunts” surrounded by Elephant Grass with Huey Helicopters in the air. King said he used photographs to assure accuracy.
Collins is depicted in the mural flying in a chopper.

John Kennedy, 121st Commander from March to August 1967, said reunions started in 2001 with an event for the entire Delta Battalion. Since then, the 121st Association of Tigers incorporated as a non-profit organization.
Kennedy said the museum brought make many memories. He said it was honor to command the Tigers.

“The trouble I had with them was trying to hold them back to keep them from doing something reckless overly hazardous while we were conducting air combat operations,” he said.

He said about 300 members of the 121st have been located. The group has a Web site: www.121avn.org

The 121st gained an outstanding reputation as it helped develop helicopter assault techniques, supply methods, and medical evacuation operations.
Two members looked at the helicopters and remarked they still remembered how to start the aircraft.
The group also toured Naval Air Station Wildwood and shared a meal.

View video interview : http://www.capemaycountyherald.com/article/51079-vietnam+helicopter+crews+reunite+forgotten+veterans+museum

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6. June 2009 by admin.

Nicholos Martino local Eagle Scout completes phase one of the landscaping project to enhance the museum’s grounds.

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6. June 2009 by admin.

The Forgotten Warriors conducted the Flag Ceremony  with Marvin Hume at Sunset  Beach, Cape May Point. The flag ceremony* is a daily event at the beach honoring those who gave it all serving their country. This one was special as the flag was a veterans casket flag that when lowered will be flown at the FW museum. Echo Taps was played by ????

*The lowering of the American flag is a 40 year tradition and Marvin Hume has been at the mast for 32 of those years. A american  flag lowering ceremony highlights the sunset over the Sunken Concrete Ship “Atlantis” which has set on the beach there for over 50 years. Constructed of concrete during World War 1 because of a shortage of steel, She was soon decommissioned because of her weight and slow speed. Towed to Cape May to be used as a loading platform for a ferry service she broke her moorings during a storm on June 8th, 1926, and beached in the spot where she now lies. Efforts to free the ship were unsuccessful and she still greets the sunsets on the beach with the millions of visitors that have come to sunset beach over the years. 

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6. June 2009 by admin.

Local Lower Township kids visit museum during D.A.R.E. day at the Airport

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22. February 2009 by admin.

A lunch will be served at the museum for the 121st assault helicopter co on June 13th,from10am to 2pm. The 121st will be having their reunion for the second time in Cape May. The 121st has donated a number of artifacts to the museum since its inception.

The 121st is known as the soc trang tigers.

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22. February 2009 by admin.

Dick and Dorsie starting mural on wall 20 by 58 feet that is on building behind the museum. Their artistic tallents are creating a Vietnam sceen as a backdrop to the museum. You can see it is starting a blank wall in September of 2008.

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20. September 2008 by admin.

Tuckahoe Nursery donates 21 Leland Cypress trees,1 for each man who died in Vietnam from Cape May County.

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10. August 2008 by admin.

Lower Township installing the flag pole.

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