Hotel: Crowne Plaza National Airport
Location: Arlington, VA
Date: 04/13/2018 - 04/16/2018
Chaired By: Tom Reinert
Attendance: 84 total/54 shipmates
Highlights
Plank Owners and those who were on the Sammy B when she hit a mine back in April 1988 began arriving on April 12th. On Friday we had a reception in the Arlington ballroom. Saturday morning we met in the lobby for a tour of DC. Our first stop was the National Museum of the United States Navy. If you have not been there it was great. They had a display on all three of the Samuel B. Roberts. We departed there and went to Arlington National Cemetery. While there we visited graves of two of our shipmates and then went to see the changing of the guard. When we left the cemetery wespent the remainder of the tour seeing DC.
Saturday night we had our dinner in the Arlington ballroom. There were several great door prizes and an auction for pieces for the Sammy B. Each crew member present also received a piece of the Sammy B’s deck that had been donated to us.
The weather Sunday morning had us cancel our golf trip. Sunday night we had a moonlight tour of Washington DC. Our guide from Old Town Trolley Tours was Mr. History (a Navy Vet) and he was fantastic.