Sgt. Daniel Escalon of the New Mexico National Guard speaks with Connie Vineyard, right, one of 12 surviving Alamo Scouts, at the New Mexico National Guard Bataan Memorial Museum during a reunion Friday. Vineyard was the only member of the World War II unit who was able to attend. Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican
Col. Ken Nava of the New Mexico National Guard, center, speaks with Connie Vineyard, right, one of 12 surviving members of the Alamo Scouts, and Unice Carvajal, who helped the elite scouts in the Philippines from 1943 to 1945, during a reunion Friday at the New Mexico National Guard Bataan Memorial Museum. Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican
Sgt. Daniel Escalon of the New Mexico National Guard speaks with Connie Vineyard, right, one of 12 surviving Alamo Scouts, at the New Mexico National Guard Bataan Memorial Museum during a reunion Friday. Vineyard was the only member of the World War II unit who was able to attend. Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican
Col. Ken Nava of the New Mexico National Guard, center, speaks with Connie Vineyard, right, one of 12 surviving members of the Alamo Scouts, and Unice Carvajal, who helped the elite scouts in the Philippines from 1943 to 1945, during a reunion Friday at the New Mexico National Guard Bataan Memorial Museum. Luis Sánchez Saturno/The New Mexican
The final gathering of the Alamo Scouts was a reunion of one.
Connie Vineyard, 90, who traveled from Madison, Wis., for events in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, was the only member of the pioneering special Army reconnaissance unit from World War II able to attend.
But about 55 historians, relatives and friends of Alamo Scouts joined him at the unit’s last reunion. It included a stop Friday at the New Mexico National Guard Bataan Memorial Museum in Santa Fe.
