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WOW 2018 has been a great year!!!! I am so
thankful for the entire Military Reunion Network spend of $100 million dollars is powerful!
family. It was wonderful to see so many of you join We hope you will continue to participate with MRN
to conversation on Facebook, attend events AND in the coming year. In fact, you can start right now.
most importantly connect with each other. Included in this issue is our new survey. Please take
a moment to fill it out and send it in. Your feedback
This year includes a major shift that will impact all
of us. We have elected to open our events calendar helps to frame the current industry trends and
to any supplier member interested in hosting a statistics. We will present the survey findings at the
FAM to their destination. This will allow our reunion upcoming Educational Summit in Nashville this
planners increase options when researching for June. In addition, this is a great opportunity to share
their next reunion. Suppliers submit their dates, what we are going well and where we can improve.
agenda, qualifying questions, and maximum number You will notice the list of upcoming reunions is
of attendees to Sharon. We list the event on our missing from this issue. At press time, there were
website, as well as promote it through the magazine so many transitions that we elected to wait until the
and social media. This shift will allow me to focus on Winter Issue to provide a complete list. Now is the
projects that will benefit all of our members. MRN time to update your reunion!!
will still offer the Educational Summit each June as It has been my honor and pleasure to serve this
well as special regional events. community for the past five years. We look forward
Speaking of the Summit, there is an interesting to great things in 2019.
article on the State of the Industry in this issue. With Have a wonderful holiday.
three years of data research compiled on the military
reunion market, we are now able to share trends,
issues and statistics. Reunion Planners that attended Sharon
the Summit realized how large an impact they have
when all the reunions are combined. A total market Sharon Danitschek, President

Bringing reunions and locations together since 1991
Published by: Military Reunion Network, Inc.
President: Sharon Danitschek - sharon@militaryreunionnetwork.com - www.militaryreunionnetwork.com
Subscriptions to Military Reunion Network Magazine are free of charge to qualified reunion planners.
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