From: Ben517
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 2:09 AM
Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 1047 517TH PRCT-JANUARY 22, 2006
70 Pleasant St. Cohasset, MA.02025  *781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett  Ben517@aol.com
 
Hello,
 
This is the last Mail Call for a few days. If the stars are aligned somehow, I will be leaving in the morning for the mini reunion in Bradenton. 
Most have received the Thunderbolt by now.
 Just received request from our French friends at the Le Muy museum to be added to our Mail Call roster
 
Ben
 

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January 22-25, 2006
Bradenton, FL


West Coast Reunion 2006
Palm Springs, Ca. April 2-7

Annual reunion July 17-22, 2006
Portland , Oregon
Martha Berg
 
Hello Ben,

Please tell Bob Christie that Oscar Berg has received the 4th Quarter
Thunderbolt and wants to thank him so much.  It arrived a couple days ago . 
He really enjoys it. (This is his wife Martha) Oscar doesn't use the
computer anymore, so I do all the correspondence for him.  As a matter of
fact -
I too enjoy the Thunderbolt, so we both thank him for all the hard work.

Ben, as I have said many times before - we all owe you a debt of gratitude
for your continuously
"keeping us together".  We love you for it.

Martha Berg

Greg Harger
Ben,

Thank you for sharing the e-mail message from Howard regarding my father, El Harger.

As a family, we have sorted through many things of necessity both material and emotional. The coming months will be good for all as we look to honor our father this summer.

We will have a notice out soon regarding a Celebration of Life “memorial service” to take place the weekend of July 29th, 2006 in Munising, Michigan. I expect a strong component of that weekend will feature my father’s involvement in the 517th.

We may need to check back in with you and others as we look to put together an accurate chronology of his service at that critical time in our nation’s history. He has kept records of so many of these stories that we never really heard all about in a full context while growing up in his home. Learning more and appreciating all the sacrifice made by so many in those days will be good for everyone involved in his Celebration of Life this summer.

Greg Harger

gharger@indy.rr.com

(317) 289-4018

1515 West New York Street

Indianapolis, IN 46222-4343


Myrle Tarver

Just letting you know that I have not received my Thunderbolt.  Is there going to be a registration form in this issue for the Portland reunion or will it be later?
Myrle Traver (F Co.)
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I'm sure it will be in a later Thunderbolt and we will have the registration form on the web site soon. How about also coming to the Palm Springs reunion in April .Bill Christian and other West Coast members always have been able to put on a good show.-Ben

Barney Hekkala
 
From Barney Hekkala, A Company. Manual Camacho, A Company, joined me and my wife Lee for a fun lunch here at our place in Carlsbad. Instead of fighting the war again, we chatted about Manny's upcoming pleasure cruise to Europe  and our future reunions which we hope go on forever.  Barney.
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Barney, how about starting future reunions by coming to the Palm Springs in April?-Ben

Walt Smith
 
 
Ben, it's late Sunday evening and I just received your #1046 email.  It screams loudly from concerned trooper members of the reality of the limitations of the abilities of those remaining to continue at the high level of the past in the support of this great organization.  H. Hensleigh expounded on the possibility of the auxiliary stepping in and easing the load and gradually taking over.  God bless the auxiliary and 'Long Live the Auxiliary'!  Would that I had the ability and Energy!
    On another note, I also received the last quarter Thunderbolt.
Walter (WW) Smith

Jean. Michel and Eric
 
Dear Ben, here is just a mail to have confirmation that you have our wishes mail with our photo to add to the news mail that we would like to receive regularly. if you don't have the last it was just to wish you all our friends of the 517th a happy new year 2006, and tell you that we don't know how and where we will find the money, but definitively you miss you all and we will be in Portland in July !...
God bless you all, God bless America !

your young friends in Le Muy AIRBORNE MUSEUM..
Jean. Michel and Eric