When I took down the guestbook in 2005 I got a lot of flack - more than I ever would have expected. With the technology used it was to hard to moderate, and didn't really give enough freedom to those who wanted to use it as a way to communicate. I was spending hours in the code removing swear words, advertisements, and botched posts. But I'm ready to try it again! - If this gets utilized I will go ahead and pay the fee to remove the banner adds. Please feel free to make suggestions and comments (as long as you don't call me a jerk I'm pretty easy going.)

Chris, you are a wonderful man to activate this forum ... and I hope that it goes well. I'm Kim Nielsen, the one who did the Indy presentations with your Grandpa. I can't even tell you how much I miss him still. I think about him every single day. What a super family you guys are! Kim

What a great tribute to your grandfather! And he sounds like he was quite a guy. What happened to the other fellow that he was in the water with? Is he still living?

Also, I was interested in your link to the Lusitania disaster. Do you know when the Discovery drama about that tragedy will play again by any chance?

Jim Newhall made it home and lived well into his senior years. I can't remember when but he died a few years before Woody. I checked on Discovery about the Lusitania show schedule and couldn't find it in the schedule - which doesn't mean its not playing. Here is the link:

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/lusitania/about/about.html

Maybe you will have better luck.