2015

December 6th, 2015 Liberty Hill, Texas This annual parade is a typical fun small-town event that pretty much the whole community turns out to watch. Participating this year we had Caitlin C, Ralph M, David C, Domingo M, Sam R, Barry F, Scott and Mrs P, Clint D, Rory C and Panda. We carried several

14 November, 2015 San Marcos, Texas The Annual San Marcos Hanger Dance was held 14 November 2015.

11 November, 2015 Austin, Texas I was unable to attend the Veterans Day parade but, was able to do my part at work. As part of the Veterans Day Celebration, Home Depot made free breakfast for all Veterans on Wednesday morning. We started cooking around 0600 and continued until 1030. The store and employees donated

11 November, 2015 Austin, Texas Once again, LSMVPA made a good showing for the parade with 13 vehicles. Quite a few members attended without their vehicles too. Lower than our usual turnout for Veterans Day, but that’s just the way things are sometimes. Andy S gets the Long-Distance award this year, having driven his M1009

11 November, 2015 Chik-Fil-A, Tech Ridge, Austin, Texas The Chik-Fil-A restaurant chain has been very active in supporting the military, veterans and their families. They do not use this support in any of their advertising. On Veterans Day, the restaurants will feed any veteran and his family for free. Chik-Fil-A locally has also been very

31 October, 2015 Downtown Taylor This is usually a very large and well organized car show. Participation this year was limited by torrential rain and flooding in the area in the days prior to, and early morning of, the show. Due to this, and concern about what the day held weather-wise, only about half of

17 October, 2015 San Antonio, Texas I attended the 33rd Annual MOPAR Car Show on 17 OCT 2015 held at Ancira Dodge off I-10 in San Antonio. I had the only military vehicle there (some Dodge ‘experts’ had no idea Dodge made trucks for the military). There were about 130+ vehicles there ranging from a

10 October, 2015 Rosanky, Texas Four vehicles attended Rosanky Car Show on 10 Oct 2015 These are photos that Dan C. took at the Rosanky Car show. They show Daune H., Joey H.! We had 3 Jeeps and Madison H.’s M37A1 truck! Jim H. won Second place in the Military class!

4 October, 2015 Camp Mabry, Texas This was a perfect day for a picnic so we had one. Our annual club picnic was held on 4 October at Camp Mabry with about 50 plus in attendance. A comment from my wife coming home was how genuinely happy everyone was to see everyone who showed up

3 October, 2015 Gonzales, Texas The Gonzales “Come and Take It” Parade was again, a great parade. The weather was perfect. We all met in the stadium and pulled out to line up at 0830 then we waited till the parade started at 1030. We had a total of 5 vehicles, 9 members and 4

9 September, 2015 Sun City, Georgetown This event was sponsored by the Purple Heart Association Chapter 1919. Our POC was Ted Acheson of Sun City! Over 90 WWII veterans were in attendance. Most of the Veterans were past Honor flight guests and wore the distinctive blue honor flight shirt. LSMVPA provided a vehicle and equipment

15 August, 2015 Memorial Park, Elgin This was an event organized by LSMVPA chaplain James H. Danny K and Madison H brought their M37s, James brought his M1009, Jim H brought his M38A1, and Rory C brought his M931A2 tractor. James and Madison also had equipment displays, while Trent P and Barry F wore period

July, 2015 Uvalde, Texas San Antonio members Georgie I. and David B. along with prospective member Ricardo B. of Uvalde provided Vietnam era vehicles and gear for a month long display in July. The display commemorated the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War and was put on by the Uvalde Library. The display drew a

4 July, 2015 Cedar Park, Texas This is always a busy day for us, and we had vehicles in no less than four different parades at the same time! In Cedar Park, we had Caitlin C and Jane C with the M274A5 mule; Sam R with his M1028 and M1102; James H and Domingo M

4 July, 2015 San Antonio, Texas David B. provided his M38A1 in support of a neighborhood 4th of July parade in San Antonio. Georgie I. was to have provided his Deuce/half, but the Deuce decided to sleep in (dead batteries).

4 July, 2015 Far West neighbourhood, Austin, Texas Jamie H had his 1st CAV M38 in the Far West neighbourhood parade on July 4th, much to the delight of the crowd. Jamie was supporting Boy Scout troop 511, who had worked to make a trailer look like a military truck. Eight WWII veterans rode the

4 July, 2015 Austin, Texas Remembering those who Served.

4 July, 2015 Lakeway, Texas The Lakeway 4th of July Parade this year was just as good as ever. We made it through with only one break down. Rick’s GPW broke down just after the start of the parade and had to be towed through the end of the parade. Other than that, it was

25-27 June, 2015 Topeka, Kansas LSMVPA was well represented at the Topeka MVPA Annual Convention. Besides members that attended Mark and Andy were set up as vendors. David B. had several bicycles and his Land Rover entered in the judging and a display of European military bicycles. David’s Land Rover (Oscar) took Gold in the

13 June, 2015 Lockhart, Texas One of our annual events, and one well attended by the locals. It is always a fun event, and virtually the whole town’s populace were lining the streets. This year our normally larger contribution was reduced by a couple of folk being sick, and some last minute failures of vehicles