Plan a Homecoming Salute!
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Veterans: is a unit you once served in currently deployed? Welcome those brothers and
sisters-in-arms home with a salute from the heroes of yesterday by planning your
reunion to coincide with other homecoming celebrations. Add your numbers, tributes
and well wishes to the friends and families who will gather to welcome their loved-ones
home.
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Create a Crowd
Locate as many of the members of your old unit as you can. There are many online
services available to help you locate old friends - even if you have not seen them in
many, many years. The bigger the crowd for the welcome home, the better.
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Start Planning Early
Get the word out early that you are planning to gather for a reunion, so that members
of your group will have plenty of time to arrange their schedules or to make travel
plans.
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Get the Word Out
Contact the publishers of any newsletters, e-mail lists, magazines or newspapers that
members of your old unit might read and ask them to place an announcement about
your reunion in their upcoming events calendars. Submit the details about your reunion
to any web sites that list military reunions.
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Keep in Touch
Once you announce your reunion, give members a way to keep in touch with you and
with other members of the group. Yahoo! and MSN.com both offer free sites for groups
to post messages and updates.
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Add Your Memories and Memorabilia to the Festivities
Ask members to bring along their memorabilia such as pictures, movies, uniforms or
other reminders of your time in the service to display, not just for members of your
group, but for the returning members of the unit and their family members to see as
well. Memorabilia is a good reminder of times gone by and evidence of the pride and
honor of service to your old unit.
Joining in the festivities of a homecoming for your old unit is a great way to combine
the gathering of old friends and comrades from your time in the service with a grand
thank you for the current members of the unit who are serving a grateful nation abroad.
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By Dina C. Carson
Dina C. Carson is the author of Reunion Solutions: Everything You Need to Plan an
Extraordinary Family, School, Military, Corporate or Association Reunion, available at
your local bookstore or at www.ReunionSolutions.com |
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