Dear Ben: I know you will be traveling too, but want
to give you and Bob my computer movement schedule. I
will disconnect it on Friday the 9th of Dec., ship it on the
tenth; the arrival and installation times are yet to be determined. I hope
to be up and running to receive email soon after the shipment of household items
arrives in Petaluma, CA.
Meanwhile, MERRY CHRISTMAS to all (including the ACLU) and
a HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Howard H
Boom Boom Alicki
If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops
in
the Iraq
theatre of operations during the last 22 months, and a total
of 2,112
deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000
soldiers.
The firearm death rate in Washington DC is 80.6 per
100,000 for the same
period.
That means that you are about 25%
more likely to be shot and killed in
the
U.S. Capitol, which has some of
the strictest gun control laws in the
nation, than you are in
Iraq.
Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington.
Ron Robinson
Ben: Sent you
an email using the address in Mail Call and it came back. Trying it
again
Ben: Could you put this in Mail
Call. I want to buy and book or monograph or similar item
about the 517th to give as a gift to a WW II veteran who was in
the 517th for this Christmas. Anyone have anything out there they
might sell me? If not can you point me to someone who sells
such items.
Thanks Ben
Ron
This is a photo of the ruins of Maria Gaspar" house in Bergerval, Belgium
January 6, 1945. Maria is the head of C.A.D,U.S.A who along with Irma and Arnold
Targnion has attended many of our reunions.
The photo is taken from Eddy Monfort's book L'OFFENSIVE DES ARDENNES
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Clark Archer provided this map.-Ben
1- Position of German anti-tank weapon.
2- Path of shell that wounded me and
17 others and killed 2 in 3rd platoon "H" Co. at Bergerval
January 5,1944
3- Maria Gaspar's house.
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