I was at the reunion earlier this month and Steve Dengler and Steve Tupper both suggested I contact you to include on your website information as to how your members (or those of any other ship) can get their names engraved in bricks. The bricks make up a couple of walkways at the Navy Memorial Park in Long Beach, California.

It's a good chance to literally engrave in stone your service or in memorium of another person. I made sales of some bricks with several more outstanding until the purchasers can think of what they want engraved on them.

The centerpiece will be an 8" X 8" engraving of the ship's crest:

Personal bricks of Mispillion veterans will be place around the crest. Below is an example of a memorial brick (of a man I went to high school with) and some photos of the park.

Below is a view of the Park looking South from the Aquarium of the Pacific.

The Queen Mary is quite visible in the background.

Below is the crest of the USS Frank E. Evans commemorating the lost crewmen

when the ship was rammed by an Aircraft Carrier.

This 18,000 lb stocked anchor was salvaged from the harbor bottom by a local boat

repair company. Research indicates it was lost by one of the Battleships of Teddy

Roosevelt's Great White Fleet.

The bricks on the main pathway of the park commemorating the former employees

of the (now plowed under for a parking lot) Long Beach Naval Shipyard.

And finally the form for ordering the bricks: Though there are "only" 18 spaces, the maker assures me that they can get all 21 letters and spaces for USS MISSPILLION AO-105 on one line because of the number of narrow letters and digits.