To Jean loup Gassend, I saw him after the war
also at some of our reunions, I favored him as he had been Cadre for
Regt. Hdq. Co. in Toccoa. Just a darn nice guy? He offered to
show my Mother and sister around the city of Toccoa during our basic
training when they had come down there to see me and I was restricted to
base. One thing I also remember was that the military tried to do a
good job of passing along information about guys missing in action after
the horrible jump into Southern France. so many of us were missing
in Action. In my case they never informed my Mother that I was missing in
action for 6 days, but did inform her that I had been found 6
days later so she sure wondered how long I had been lost and why they
had not told her of that? Desso was a very small guy for a paratrooper,
It seemed at times they made a lot to do about how big a guy was but then
again some smaller guys got in. Tom McAvoy
Tom McAvoy
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To Kenton Immerfall; How we felt about the non-combatant
people?? We all got the same pay. Why a hell
of a difference between a guy on the front lines battling the enemy
and guys acting like stevedores? In fact I was very surprised to
hear some friends of mine were Cadets learning to be Pilots by
going to College 4 years and while they were still
Cadets were being paid $175.00 per month while we
in combat were being paid $114.00 per month, what idiot figured
this out? I think the V.A. was full of noncombatant people that
allowed or laughed at the disabled Vets returning from combat and applying for disability benefits by telling them
Ha Ha we had a fire in St. Louis Mo. and all our records
were burned up. So we don't know where any of you people were
unless you are missing an arm or a leg or eye your not
injured. Happened to me folks. Tom McAvoy
Don Sliker
A Veteran - whether active duty,
retired, national guard or reserve - is
someone who, at one point
in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to
The United
States of America, for an amount of "up to and including my life".
********
Amen! Most had no choice as to what branch of the
army that they would serve with at that time - Ben
Mark Landreth
Hi Ben - Re: Mail Call #1407, I
couldn't download the photo well enough to see the details. But, I
do recall Lt. E.F. Brooks was, at one time, C.O. of E Company. My
dad served with them and has a photo noting "Lt. E.F. Brooks
Commanding" that still hangs on the wall of his home office.
mark
Bob Dalrymple
Ben: Is this an authentic
message from Snopes ? Bob
Hope
this is helpful to some of you:
From
Snopes.com
If you
are going to pass something along?, Let it be
THIS!
To
whom it all concerns:
Just a word to the wise. E-mail
petitions are
NOT
acceptable to Congress or any other municipality. To be
acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full
address. Same with "prayer chains" -- be wary.
Almost
all e-mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to
others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked
people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who
wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most
cards All it was, and
all this type of e-mail is, is to get names and
"cookie"
tracking info
for telemarketers and spammers to validate active e-mail
accounts for their own
purposes.
Any
time you see an e-mail that says forward this on to "10"
of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get good luck,
or what ever, it has either
an
e-mail tracker
program attached that tracks the cookies and e-mails of those
folks you forward to,
or the host sender is getting a
copy
Each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of
"active" e-mails to use in spam e-mails, or sell to others
that do.
Please
forward this notice to others and you will be providing a good
service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting
30,000 spam e-mails in the
future.
(If
you have been sending out the above kinds of email, now you
know why you get so much spam!)
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Above is correct. However, it
was forwarded to many before Bob received it. I don't
like to forward mail especially with attachments unless I know
the addresses'that received it before it is sent
to me.-Ben
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