after talking with my pal Rick again, and Sandii, the driving force in this project, I have a better understanding of the effort...

the information I've compiled is a bit voluminous to post here, unless it's by popular demand..

some links to a couple of websites, one commercial, others- the media and "such"-
contact information, a petition, and some background snooping I've done online.

I'll happily send all I have to anyone, via email, or snailmail- Vern Gano's agreed to put it out with his next 52nd CAB DragonFlight Newsletter...

the organization is indeed a 501c(3) tax-exempted, not-for-profit thing.

There is apparently a gross lack of support evident in Hawaii because the scalawag that BT mentioned having been captured hit up the HI Vet Service Organizations for a half a mil, and vanished with most of it..it will be tough to get their trust back.

Please respond here, email or call me (bunches of ya have my number- I bug ya allatime..) for details.
I'll supply all requestors an information/donation sheet, and my hastily compiled but lovingly researched info.

I think we need to bombard the HI and US gummints and the Matson Navigation Company (world-wide shipper, kept us in beans, bullets and band-aids 'way back when, and made megabucks at it)
with what I think I can fairly presume to be our collective opinion in this matter.

Most Respectfully,
Tom Lumpkin