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Hello,

Yesterday February 7 was the 62nd university of the last day of combat for the 517 . Frank Hayes B company was KIA that day.

We will get up to date with www.517prct.org/archives soon. Bob has had an operation on his leg. Second time. Same leg. He up dates the archives.

Doubletree Hotel Registration Form

Please let me know if you want to receive Mail Calls or if you have a problem receiving them. You can always read Mail Calls by clicking on www.517prct.org/archives

Washington Reunion. Early Arrival Wednesday June 27. Banquet Sunday July 1. Depart Monday July 2

Ben

Website www.517prct.org
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Mail Call Archives www.517prct.org/archives
Roster www.517prct.org/roster.pdf

Reunions 2007:
Palm Springs, CA Mini-Reunion April 15 - 20

Washington, DC National Reunion June 27 - July 2

Click on these Links for Forms and Information

Information and Registration Forms

formatted pdf forms	simple Web Page format
Doubletree Hotel Registration Form Reunion schedule of Events 517th Reunion Registration Form	Doubletree Hotel Registration Form Reunion schedule of Events 517th Reunion Registration Form

Click on http://517prct.org/auxiliary/ to find the mission of the Auxiliary and an enrollment form

Merle McMorrow

Ben:

I don't know if this will come through or not. I should have you out for a month to have you show me how to run some of these new gadgets.

I am going through my files and clearing out some of things I have before the day comes when someone just throws everything in the garbage.

Let me know if you receive this.

I told you I am printing out applications for the reunion and sending them to those who have no computer. Do you know when the Thunderbolt with the application will be out?

Our best wishes to Fran.

Merle

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Again Merle is doing more than what duty calls for. Sending out registration forms.!!!!! Merle rescued the Association after the passing of Bill Lewis a few years ago.

Michael Wells

Still looking for any information about Chester A. Wells, my dad, and his association with the 517th.

Howard Hensleigh, in Mail Call dated 02-05-07, talks about a person named "Woody" and how the wrong unit designation, 101st, is on his gravesite. This piqued my interest as my father had the 101st patch on one of his uniforms and on another he had the 17th Airborne Patch. Did the 517th have any association with the 101st or the 17th Airborne?

Also, my mother said my father told one story about his time in the war. Evidently my dad, aka "Curley," was a driver for an officer, possibly a Colonel; who may have had the nickname of "Ho-Ho." When they were approaching a river, the officer yelled, "Ho, Driver, Ho!" My dad misunderstood the officer and thought he was yelling, "Go Driver, GO!" Needless to say, they drove on into the river. Anyway, that's the way she remembers the story.

My mother also remembered the name of a fellow soldier whom he talked about quite a bit: "Billy" Revis. I found a "William B. Revis," on the Christmas roster; Private, Service Company. Would appreciate any information on this person.

Anyway, still looking for information.

Thanks for your work.

Michael S. J. Wells

Mail Call NO 1026 Dec. 15, 2005

Michael Carrillo

Ben, I hope you can open it. It would be nice if all the 517 family
could see this. There are many Americans that owe you guys a lot of
gratitude for what we have today. I am so proud of my Dad and all of
you! Bless you all.

The link is www.beforeyougo.us   This is really great. We often forget
what our men and women is uniform do for our country and us.
>
>Subject: "Before You Go"

>Read the story then click the link to listen to the story and view the
>slide show. If this doesn't move you, you have no pulse.
>
>
>   The elderly parking lot attendant wasn't in a good mood!
>
>   Neither was Sam Bierstock. It was around 1 a.m., and Bierstock, Delray
>Beach, Fla., eye doctor, business consultant, corporate speaker and
>musician, was bone tired after appearing at an event.
>
>   He pulled up in his car, and the parking attendant began to speak. "I
>took two bullets for this country and look what I'm doing," he said bitterly.
>
>   At first, Bierstock didn't know what to say to the World War II veteran.
>But he rolled down his window and told the man, "Really, from the bottom of
>my heart, I want to thank you."
>
>   Then the old soldier began to cry.
>
>   "That really got to me," Bierstock says.
>
>   Cut to today.
>
>   Bierstock, 58, and John Melnick, 54, of Pompano Beach -- a member of
>Bierstock's band, Dr. Sam and the Managed Care Band -- have written a song
>inspired by that old soldier in the airport parking lot. The mournful
>"Before You Go" does more than salute those who fought in WWII. It
>encourages people to go out of their way to thank the aging warriors before
>they die.
>
>   "If we had lost that particular war, our whole way of life would have
>been shot," says Bierstock, who plays harmonica. "The WW11 soldiers are now
>dying at the rate of about 2,000 every day. I thought we needed to thank
>them."
>
>   The song is striking a chord. Within four days of Bierstock placing it
>on the Web http://.beforyougo.us, the song and accompanying photo
>essay have bounced around nine countries, producing tears and heartfelt
>thanks from veterans, their sons and daughters and grandchildren.
>
>   "It made me cry," wrote one veteran's son. Another sent an e-mail saying
>that only after his father consumed several glasses of wine would he
>discuss "the unspeakable horrors" he and other soldiers had witnessed in
>places such as Anzio, Iwo Jima, Bataan and Omaha Beach. "I can never thank
>them enough," the son wrote. "Thank you for thinking about them."
>
>   Bierstock and Melnick thought about shipping it off to a professional
>singer, maybe a Lee Greenwood type, but because time was running out for so
>many veterans, they decided it was best to release it quickly, for free, on
>the Web. They've sent the song to Sen. John McCain and others in
>Washington. Already they have been invited to perform it in Houston for a
>Veterans Day tribute -- this after just a few days on the Web. They hope
>every veteran in America gets a chance to hear it.