From: Ben517@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 7:54 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 1380 517TH PRCT- AUGUST 2, 2007
 70  Pleasant St. Cohasset, MA. 02025  *781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett  Ben517@aol.com
 
Hello,
 
Tomorrow may be the Last Mail Call while I am out West. I will have access to a computer and hope to be able to send Mail Call, but may have trouble accessing my address book.
Send Mail.
 
Paratroopers' Odyssey is  available for $22.50. Send payment to Leo Dean.
 
  At times you may have a problem viewing photos. However, we place most photos on the website under Training and WWII Photos .
 
Please try to send in donations by August 15 to Keep the 517 PRCT Association viable. Suggested amount $30.00 to  include Thunderbolt.  Auxiliary members $20.00 Plus $10.00 if you want to receive the for the Thunderbolt.  Send donations to  Leo Dean, 14 Stonehenge Lane, Albany, NY  12203.  Make checks payable to 517prct.         Donations for the Auxiliary should be sent to  Karen Frice Wallace   66295 Highway 20  Bend, OR 97701
 
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
 
 Ben
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Recent website additions:

Robert Magnuson and friends, G and H Companies
Madawaska Victory passenger lists
Chester A. Wells, H Company
1st Lt. Floyd A. Stott, I Company (KIA)
1983 517th Reunion Booklet - San Mateo, CA

Bill Boyle news article

517 PRCT Association  Officers

Peter Jansson
 
Hi Mr. Barrett: 
Please accept my apology for the tardiness of this post as my brother and I have been on vacation since July 14th till the 29th part of the time battling small mouth bass and other northeast freshwater fish in Northeast Maine.  I had meant to send a message to this site before we had left.  A gentleman named Trooper Walsh had contacted us shortly before our trek to Washington at the reunion.  Many of you all knew of Dad's accident and recuperation and were so very nice  to our family regarding the reunion.  In any event, I would like everyone to know that Trooper met us at the airport, drove us to the hotel and forth and back between events, and served us as a stranger who was guide, chauffeur, liaison and friend during the reunion.  This was very helpful to my brother and I as Dad was not very mobile at the time, and still isn't.  Trooper took us to the various events at his own volition, on his own dime, and was most cordial to us as strangers he had never met.  Trooper Walsh, we came to find out, is the son of the 1st Commander the 517th ever had, and was instrumental in choosing the eventual leaders of the battalions!.  I just want you to know that all the people of the 517th and their families were so kind to us--please let us thank you again... Peter Jansson and family. 
Dick Seitz
 
For Gene Brissey.  Sorry to hear you have been under the weather.  I and many of your admirers from that great E company were hopping to see you at the reunion in Washington.  Maybe we can all make the next one.  Best wishes for an early and good recovery.  With great admiration .  Airborne all the way! Dick Seitz
Mark Baird
Ben,
    Would like to use this medium to thank
Steve Markle and his BW  for sending the DVD of
the VP's  Convention Address. It is great!
   Have also sent them a card.

Mark Baird.
Co. A
Fred (Netherlands)
 
Hello ben,

I want the know of I can used the life slogan from boom boom on oure website??

It's a beautiful slogan from someone the have the live experiences 
from War and Peace and he knows what is important for an human live.

Thanks for now,

warm regards,

Fred
Don Harte

Hello Ben

I keep trying to submit to the guest book but keep getting error messages.  If you could answer these questions or submit them to the guestbook I would appreciate it.

I'm the son of Sgt John Harte, 460th PFAB and recently have been in touch (E Mail) with a 26 year old Frenchman, Nicolas Arnulf, who lives in l'Escarene and belongs to a 517th, 460th reenactment group there. 

He has requested information on 460th forward observers such as what radio, weapons, and equipment did they use?  Did they travel alone with the radio on their back or with another soldier to carry the radio?

The reenactment group is organizing a memory night walk of 20 km on August 15th to commemorate Operation Dragoon in the St. Roselyne and La Motte area and Nicolas would like to participate as a 460th forward observer.  Any info would be appreciated and Thank You all for your service and sacrifice.

 Don Harte 

Marie-Louise Spencer

Dear Ben,
Thank you for your personal e-mail inquiring about our health.
Joe had a very serious operation in February and we are not
too happy about what we heard from the oncologist Monday
but my faith in God is far superior to what a Dr. may say.
As far as I am concerned, I have spinal stenosis and that
slows me down a bit but I keep going.
Keep up the good work you are doing, we need you.
Marie-Louise Spencer (460th HQ)