Hey Vance,

Nice to see that the Bard of Oklahoma has re-emerged to bring holiday smiles to all. I've been away but I wanted to wish you, a steadfast brother, and your loving family all the very best as 2010 grows smaller in our collective rear-view mirror and a new year beckons with promise and meaning.

Here's a long-distance toast with a cup/bottle/55-gallon drum of soju to those days when we shared our individual tours of Vietnam, Republic of, with the courageous soldiers and marines of ROK -- then shoulder-to-shoulder in the worst of times, now as enduring friends and brothers -- with this wonderful website, the product of Jae's indomitable spirit and devotion.

See you down the path, keep five...

Joe

Baltimore.