Posted: 12/30/2005 7:06:32 AM EDT
| So what is CAmp Perry? Where is it? Thanks zeek |
| Camp Perry is a Military base just outside of Port Clinton, Ohio. It is home to various units of the Ohio National gaurd, the Ohio Military reserve and the Ohio Naval Militia. It is also the home to the CMP north store as well as the National rifle and Pistol matches. |
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In 1949, Alliance’s president Thornton Oakley was a member of the Mayor of Philadelphia’s Reception Committee when the Train de la Reconnaissance Française, (the French Gratitude Train) came to Pennsylvania. – 49 railroad boxcars (one for each for the forty-eight states, and one for the District of Columbia to be shared with the district of Hawaii) laden with gifts, artwork, and treasured items from the people of France sent in gratitude and appreciation to the United States for the Friendship Train. The Friendship Train which the French people received from the United States in 1947. was loaded with carloads of food, medicine and supplies to help people recover after WWII - a wonderful gesture on the part of the people from the U.S. and France that further forged their brotherhood. I am sure the one located at Camp Perry, arrived pretty much the same as the one from Philadelphia. |