From: ben517@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006
8:17 PM
To: Ben517@aol.com
Subject: Mail call #1239 517th PRCT 12-26-06
70 Pleasant St.
Cohasset, MA.02025 *781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett
Ben517@aol.com
Hello,
I may not be able to
send mail call for a few days. AOL does like sending to a large bulk mails
when I'm signed on as a guest. It will take them 72 hours to fix the
problem.
Ben
Washington Reunion. Arrival Wednesday June 27. Banquet Sunday July 1.
Depart Monday July 2
Eddie
Monfort
Dear
Friends,
Just a note to wish you
a
MERRY CHRISTMAS
and
a HAPPY NEW YEAR
full joy and good
health.
Sincerely,
Your friends from
Belgium,
Raphael and
Eddy
Jim
Royer
Ben, Enjoy
yourself out West and HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY WITH
THE MEMBERS
OF YOUR FAMILY.
You
mentioned a DVD of the 517th in the Battle of The Bulge. Is
it
available? if so, I would like to obtain one. I did not
see it on the
History channel.
As a
great friend of mine (age 93) would say,
"Have a good one!"
Jim
Royer
The video is available. I'll send the information on purchase
when I return home.
Ben
Jim
Royer
Ben,
So very sorry to hear of the passing of Bill Pencak. He was
our
Company Commander,
Hq. Co., 3rd Bn. A very much admired
leader.
We send our sincere prayers to his family. He will
always be remembered
by members of the 517th family, especially Hq.
3rd.
Jim Royer
Ray
Hess
MERRY
CHRISTMAS BEN, AND TO YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY. THANKS TO YOU & BOB FOR "MAIL
CALL" AND EVERY THING ELSE THAT YOU HAVE DONE THROUGH OUT THE PAST FEW YEARS>
BEST REGARDS RAY R. HESS
Tom Reber
Dear Ben
Mail Call,
I was saddened
to hear of Bill Pencak's passing. My wife, Marianne, and I spent an
afternoon with him and his wife in TN a few years ago. He regaled us with
many stories of the 517th and his life in the military.
Mr. Pencak
was the very first trooper to respond to my inquiry to Mail Call, for
stories about my father. He was very informative and helpful to
me.
I wish his family the very
best.
Tom Reber
son of Lt. Bob Reber, HQ
3rd
Boom Boom Alicki
Mail Call came in great.
God
bless all of the 517th PRCT family on this Christmas Day.
My deep
condolence to the Pencak family on their loss.
Boom Boom
Alicki
Jay Sutcliffe
Mr. Barrett,
Hope you had a great Christmas,
I’ve attached the autograph sections from the
517 Parachute Combat Team
booklet that my Dad, Jim Sutcliffe, H company, had. There are names from
Troopers and family members that I know receive e-mail, and I thought they might
enjoy this. When I saw that Rick Sweet was looking for information on his
Dad, I decided to send this in. Mr. Sweet’s autograph is in the
booklet. Thanks to the 517 website I’ve had the great fortune to make
contact with a few of these people by phone or e-mail. My dad was friendly
with a lot of Troopers from D company too, so all of the signatures are not just
H company troopers.
Thanks and have a happy New Year
j
I'll put the attachments on a mail call when I return home, safely
back at my own computer.
Bob Barrett
Dad,
After the last few weeks of travel,
I finally managed to find some time over the last few days to catch up on some
517 postings. As I noted to Heather
Riley, I finally got around to posting all her photos of the Blue Book magazine
articles from 1947-1948. Someday, I
would like to be able to scan in high-resolution copies that will be easier to
read in sequence, but what is there will do for now.
In addition, I added a
lot of the unit history onto the Wikipedia (an online
encyclopedia) article about the 517th. Most of that I just
summarized from the Short History article on our web site. I will continue more cleanup of the
Wikipedia article, but I thought that the existing
entry needed a little more meat on it.
Bob