Hi Ben:
I have been in St. Louis, Missouri for a while because my Mom had open
heart surgery. She is doing real well and she came home today Nov.
21st. She had the surgery on her 80th Birthday Nov. 15th.
I did not get a chance to wish all of you Happy Veterans Day. Again thank
you all for your service to our Country.
I would also like to wish all of you a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!
Chris Lindner
Tom Reber
Dear Ben,
I enjoyed seeing the monuments in Belgium, as well as other
places the 517th has left their indelible mark on history. Just a brief
note to say I will be enjoying a much anticipated job change (and company
change) back to KY. Next week is my last week in OH, and I will be moving
at some point from Lexington to the Louisville area. So now I will
be home much more and can stay more current with the roster.
I have been unable to participate in the football banter, due
to travel schedules, but for Howard Hensleigh and Jim Royer, my UW Badgers
certainly over-achieved this year. Their first year coach was a pleasant
surprise for me. I know Mr. Royer is an avid hoops fan, but I do not share
that interest until about mid March. I know, I live in KY and I hold
little interest in b-ball...what can I say?
Due to my new job, it is highly unlikely I will be able to
make the January mini-reunion in Kissimmee. I will certainly make it if
the opportunity presents itself, but my new job is a start-up, in a new
building.
Happy T-giving to you all,
Tom Reber
son of Lt. Bob Reber, HQ 3rd
Retired Enlisted Association
I understand your organization is planning a 2007 reunion. If you would
like for your reunion to be listed on The Retired Enlisted Association
(TREA) reunion web site, FOR FREE, please send me the following
information.
Please place your reunion information in the following
format: Month,
Date, Service Branch, Reunion Name, Where the reunion
will be held,
Point of Contact (Name, address, phone number and e-mail
address) and
unit web site address.
Example:
Apr 20-23, 2006: US
Navy, ACU/LCU/LSU/LCT (all crews WW-II to present)
in Norfolk, VA, POC:
Richard Bohner, 172 Red Robin Rd, Naugatuck, CT
06770, (203) 729-4290,
richardhelonurse@aol.com
July 14-16, 2006: US Navy, USS Boston Shipmates
in Oakbrook-Chicago,
IL, POC: Arthur Hebert, PO Box 816, Amherst, NH 03031,
(603) 772-8772,
ArtHebert@ussboston.org, www.ussboston.org
I
encourage long range TBD (to be determined) reunion listings. This
allows
information to be out there for a long period of time giving the
veterans
more time to find your reunion. All we need for a TBD is the
Year,
Organization Name and POC (point of contact) information. As
information is
finalized the reunion listing can be updated.
If you decide to accept our
FREE offer, I suggest you retain my contact
information for any questions
you may have later and for listing of
your future reunions.
Thank you
and have a great reunion!
"UNITED WE STAND"
John H. Moore, SMSgt,
USAF Retired (1961–87)
Reunion Manager (volunteer)
The Retired Enlisted
Association (TREA)
Home: 657 E. Adams Street
Marengo, IA 52301
Home: (319)
741-5734
Cell: (319) 936-2154
E-mail:
TREAreunionsite@mac.com
Website:
"FREEDOM ISN'T FREE"
Dennis Sura
Howard Hensleigh, I would like to talk to you more
about my father Mike Sure if possible. Can I call you?
Dennis M. Sura
Tom McAvoy
Mr. Jannson If you would like to do your father a favor mention
to him the 517 reunion in Palm Springs Calif April 2007. I enjoy afterwards
going to Las Vegas for a little R.& R. always a good time in Palm
Springs Calif. My name is Tom McAvoy Regt. Hdq Co. and Company H from Toccoa
March 1943 to the jump into France where I received critical injuries on the
drop. I did not know your Father but we are all brothers of the 517. Since he has
never been to a reunion, I am sure he would enjoy Palm Springs also. My wife and I
live in Indianapolis Ind. and of coarse fly out to Palm Springs. Because
of health problems I have not been able to go for some time, However the
6-7 I have attended was a joy?? Tom McAvoy
Rick Sweet
Hi Ben,
Do you
know if Geza Nagy is still around ? He also was one of my dads friends in H CO.
I believe he was a tech 5 ! Thanks for your help. Also Happy Thanksgiving !!! I
am thankful to you and this web page and mail call.
Rick Sweet
(4) Bill
Maudlin, Up Front (1945)
The surest way to become a pacifist
is to join the infantry. I don't make the infantryman look noble, because he
couldn't look noble even if he tried. Still there is a certain nobility and
dignity in combat soldiers and medical aid men with dirt in their ears. They are
rough and their language gets coarse because they live a life stripped of
convention and niceties.
Their nobility and dignity come
from the way they live unselfishly and risk their lives to help each other. They
are normal people who have been put where they are, and whose actions and
feelings have been molded by their circumstances. There are gentlemen and boors;
intelligent ones and stupid ones; talented ones and inefficient ones.
But when they are all together and
they are fighting, despite their bitching and griping and goldbricking and
mortal fear, they are facing cold steel and screaming lead and hard enemies, and
they are advancing and beating the hell out of the opposition.
They wish to hell they were
someplace else, and they wish to hell they would get relief. They wish to hell
the mud was dry and they wish to hell their coffee was hot. They want to go
home. But they stay in their wet holes and fight, and then they climb out and
crawl through minefields and fight some more.
A Bill
Mauldin Cartoon
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