We had Awarded you all our Veteran Web Site Award a while back. Since then we have made a much more nicer Award and would like to give it to in place of the old one. (gif file) We are very HONORED that you had accepted it from us and set it on your Web Site. You can keep both, if you please. I know it is some work to change it, but as we add to our Web Site, we try and improve every thing on it and that we
Thank you for letting us Link to you and for letting us set you in our Military, Vietnam and Poetry / Writers Link Sections of our Web Site. .
Your Links were set on our Web Site as I received them (order they appear in) to put up . Last first and first last on the page .
For the 1st Bn 5th Infantry Regiment 25th ID Class of 1966,
Norman "Butch" Petit
Bravo Company 1st Platoon 3rd squad
Squad Leader, Tunnel Rat & Pointman
Thank you Norm for thinking of us you guys do great work1 keep it up!
Ruby..........
OUR AWARDS PAGE
Dearest Ruby,
The “IWVPA Bronze Helmet Top Poet Award of Excellence” cannot be obtained by application. One award will be made each month to a poet who has writing(s) published on the IWVPA website. Members of the IWVPA Club may make recommendations of writers who, in their opinion, have achieved the standard required to be named "Top Poet" for any given month. Although the final decision as to the recipient rests with the IWVPA Webmaster, the Award is made on behalf of all member of the IWVPA Club.
I and the members of the IWVPA have, for almost 6 years, been impressed with your all your writings, particularly those that are war/veteran related. In fact, if memory serves me, you wrote your first poem ever as a member of the club, and one, "Who Will Cry for the Soldiers" was used as the them for our second anthology. Although it's been some time since I received a submission from you, your poems have resulted in great personal pleasure for me, and your friendship has never wavered. The high quality of your writings has led me to declare you to be the recipient of the IWVPA Bronze Helmet Top Poet Award of Excellence for October 2006.
I’ve taken the liberty of attaching the award graphic to your IWVPA Index page
(http://iwvpa. net/belozra/); the graphic is linked to the IWVPA Bronze Helmet Honour Roll located at http://iwvpa. net/awards/ index_bha.php and I invite you to add it to your website and link it to the same URL. Please note that doing so is NOT a prerequisite of being the recipient of this award.
If you would like to learn a little more about the reason and value of the award, please visit the IWVPA Website's Bronze Helmet Award Guidelines at http://iwvpa. net/awards/ bha.php.
Congratulations Ruby; your name is the fifteenth of many worthy recipients that have been and will, over time, be included on the Honour Roll of IWVPA Bronze Helmet Top Poet Award of Excellence Award.
Sincere regards, my dear friend
Tony
