Awards & Recognition

A big THANK YOU to all the wonderful people who have bestowed the following awards upon the North Platte Canteen. It is with immense gratitude that these awards are accepted and displayed here in honor of the 6 million servicemen and women, the Canteen volunteers, and the North Platte Canteen. They are all very special.

MEMBER
of the

POD

BEST
of POD

I love your website. It is very deserving of many awards, and I'm happy to give it my WWII WebSite Award and a link from my WWII Website page.

Theresa M. Goebel
Heartland Community Leader
July 17, 1997

Congratulations,

This site is the recipient of the gold wings award! You may display this award with pride!

David Hack
CEO, U.S. Wings Inc.
July 20, 1997

As an individual whose career is helping veterans, I seek out pages that are special and present them with my "Top Gun" Award. Yours is special!

Rodney Henry
The Missouri Traveler
July 27, 1997

It is my great honor to give the Blue Knight Award for Patriotism to your wonderful North Platte Canteen Website. I was very pleased to see that this fine establishment has been memorialized on the Web.

Ron Fleischer
Windsor, Colorado
July 28, 1997

It gives me great pleasure to present my Top Vet Site award to you for your wonderful work on your site, your service to your country and for your obvious love for your country.

Chuck (Doc) Stewart
Tucson, Arizona
July 28, 1997

I just finished visiting your web site and found it to be quite enjoyable! I love nostalgia and the "CANTEEN" hit the spot. You did an excellent job on the page and I would be honored if you accepted the citation below.
Your respect for proper NET ETHICS and your ability to display your web page in a LOGICAL, INFORMATIVE, and CREATIVE format places you among only a handful of webmasters that have received this award.

Bruce Hart, LTC USA (ret)
HART ENTERPRISES
July 31, 1997

WOW....this site is DYNAMITE!

I LOVE your site so much, will you please accept my Butterfly Kiss Award...my "special" that can not be applied for.
Yours is such a refreshing site and I have learned from it. I want the school kids to see this in the fall.

Laura
Veterans for a Change
August 7, 1997

Congratulations,

We have reviewed your site and found that it qualifies for the Golden Banner Award.

Thank you for your interest.

Bob Miner
Webmaster, Golden Banner Award
August 8, 1997

To all whom this site shall come
Greetings
Know ye, that I, confiding in the outstanding
PATRIOTISM - LOYALTY - INTEGRITY
of

"Martin Steinbeck"
North Platte Canteen

do as of this date, 9 February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nineteen hundred and ninety eight and of the great Independence of the "United States of America" the two hundred and twenty second year bestow upon the above named "Patriot" with great pride for the exceptional display of "Outstanding Patriotism" this Award

Presented by:
Al Varelas - USMC
Decorated Vietnam Veteran
26th Marine Regiment
Khe Sanh Combat Base
Republic of South Vietnam

Know ye all who preview this presentation, that this Award is confered upon True Patriots only. Be Be it also known that this Award is given at the discretion of it's originator, or by recommendation of a receipient, and cannot be applied for...

Top Vet Site - Veterans News and Information Service

Your site has been chosen to receive the VNIS "Top Vet Site" Award. This award is presented to sites which provide current and up-to-date news and information to the Military Veteran Community.

Veterans News and Information Service
May 10, 1998

Congratulations!!......Your site definitely qualifies for the "Critical Mass Award". A very nice site, excellent design, clever original graphics, and your content is informative, entertaining, presented well and easy to access. A *worthy* enterprise and a *positive* contribution to the Web. Thanks for helping make the Web a more interesting, fun and attractive place to visit.

Bill Darling
May 11, 1998

I was very impressed by all the hard work you have put into the site and have to congratulate you on an outstanding achievement in web site design, both in appearance and content.
I just want to add that while browsing through the site, I felt like I was reliving a bit of history. Congratulations on creating a web site that not only reflects the highest standards of professionalism and creativity, but brings history to life. Better than the History channel... A definite pleasure to visit and bookmark...

Ben Ciolczynski
May 11, 1998