70 Pleasant St.
Cohasset, MA. 02025 ,781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett
Ben517@aol.com
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Hello,
Dick Seitz sent to me a message from The Airborne
Quarterly about the 13th Airborne Association voting to dissolve their
Association. Claire's reply is notice that we are well and intend with the
help of the Auxiliary survive well into the future.
We
are starting a fund with volunteer contributions to assist our friends from
Belgium and France to attend the St. Louis reunion. You can send a contribution
to Leo Dean at 14 Stonehenge Lane, Albany New York 12203
Please let me know if your
email is not to be included in Mail Call by inserting FYEO.
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
Please try to send in
donations 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 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
We up dating theThunderbolt
roster. Please send mailing address to Helen Beddow HBeddow@cs.com please include the name "517th" in the subject
box.
Ben
Palm
Springs, CA
April 13-18,
2008
517TH ST. LOUIS REUNION BEGINS:
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008 THRU MONDAY, JUNE 30,
2008
THE BANQUET WILL BE ON SUNDAY JUNE 29, 2008.
Information and Registration Forms:
Claire Giblin
Ben - please communicate to Airborne Quarterly that not
only is the 517 alive and well, we are still having reunions and reorganizing to
accommodate the march of time. They are welcome to visit our website or
entertain a subscription to the Thunderbolt.
So there.
Claire
Claire Giblin
Hi, Ben ,
Darrell has mentioned in Mail Call that the Auxiliary and the Association are
undertaking a filmmaking and oral history project, most of which will be
accomplished at the St. Louis reunion this summer.
Although we have had some filming done previously, this is the first time
we're investing serious money in the project. Our partners for this effort
are Rob McDonald, documentary filmmaker and Patrick O'Donnell, author and oral
historian. I'm attaching the cover art for Pat's latest book,
The Brenner Assignment. Rob and Pat are part of
the 517 family: Rob's uncle is Hunter McDonald; Pat O'Donnell has long been
associated with the unit and featured the 517 in his book Beyond
Valor. They are both thrilled to be doing this project, and
we're fortunate to have retained such qualified people for such important
work.
In the next few weeks, we'll start to develop a shared vision of this
project. AS we move closer to the reunion, we'll be figuring out time
slots and scheduling interviews.
The registration forms are in Mail Call, on the website, and will also be
falling out of your next Thunderbolt (going to press in a short time -
we are so excited!!). Don't wait - register today and
meet us in St. Louis!!!
Warm regards to all -
Claire Giblin
Auxiliary President
60790079-Brenner Assignment comp 1[2].pdf (117.7 Kb)
attached=
Following email received from many
>>>> Hi All, I checked with Norton
Anti-Virus, and they are gearing up for
> this virus! I'd get this
e- mail message sent around to your contacts
> ASAP.
> PLEASE
FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS! You
>
should
> be alert during the next few days. Do not open any message
with an
> attachment entitled
>>> 'POSTCARD,' regardless of
who sent it to you. It is a virus which
>>>
opens
>>> A POSTCARD IMAGE, which 'burns' the whole hard disc C of
your
>>> computer.
>>> This virus will be received from
someone who has your e-mail
>>> address in
>>> his/her
contact list. This is the reason why you need to send this
>>>
e-mail to all your contacts. It is better to receive this message
25
>>> times than to receive the virus and open
it.
>>>
>>>
>>> If you receive a mail
called' POSTCARD,'
>>> even though sent to you by a friend, do not
open it.! Shut down your
>>> computer immediately. This is the
worst virus announced by CNN. It
>>> has
>>> been
classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever.
>>>
This
>>> virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no
repair
>>> yet for
>>> this kind of virus. This
virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of
>>> the
>>>
Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.
>>>
>>>
COPY THIS E-MAIL, AND SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS. REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT
>
TO THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US.
Bob Barrett
The virus from a
“postcard” or “an eCard for you” is real, but it is not new, and certainly not
“the most destructive virus ever according to Microsoft”. Note:
Microsoft does not rate viruses. And no virus experts would tell you to
get the word out by sending this message to all your friends. That is a
sure way to spread more viruses or unnecessary chain-mails. If you have
virus protection you should be fine. But I have received quite a few of
these “an eCard for you” messages recently. Do like I do and just delete
them. I just assume that they are fake, since there are so many. Any
emails from people you do not know, which have hyperlinks in them, are always
suspicious. If you really think someone might have sent you a legitimate
eCard (Why? Do you really need to see it?), then I would follow the McAfee
advice:
Since many of these malicious messages imitate
notifications from legitimate e-card sites, recipients should get into the habit
of never clicking on links contained within e-card notification e-mails.
Instead, go directly to the web site of the card company, find the card pickup
page within that site, and enter the ID code included in the e-mail. (If the
message was a fake, the worst that will happen is that you won’t get a
card.)
Bob
Guest Book entry
Sent:
Wednesday, March
12, 2008 4:33
PM
To:
webmaster@517prct.org
Subject: LESTER
EUGENE HYMAN - 596TH PARATROOPER ENGINEER COMBAT
COMPANY
GENTLEMEN:
PLEASE FIND ATTACHED PICTURES OF MY
FATHER PFC LESTER EUGENE (GENE) HYMAN. HE IS FROM LOGANSPORT,
IN. I WOULD LIKE FOR
YOU TO POST THEM TO THE WEBSITE IN HONOR OF HIS SERVICE. I HAVE ALWAYS
BEEN INTERESTED IN MY DAD’S MILITARY SERVICE AND SOME OF THE STORIES THAT HE
TOLD ME. I AM CURRENTLY WORKING ON PUTTING TOGETHER A SHADOW BOX OF HIS
MILITARY MEMORABILIA. DAD DIED BACK IN AUGUST OF 2000. SINCE THEN I
HAVE CARED FOR HIS MILITARY ITEMS AND PICTURES. JUST RECENTLY I DISCOVERED
THIS WEBSITE AND WANT TO CONTRIBUTE ANY INFORMATION I
CAN.
I AM
HOPING THAT THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL MEN ALIVE FROM THE 596TH THAT
REMEMBER HIM AND ARE WELCOMED TO EMAIL ME ABOUT DAD. IT WOULD BE AN HONOR
TO HEAR FROM THEM.
SINCERELY,
JEFF A.
HYMAN
YES SIR: I WOULD
VERY MUCH LIKE TO HEAR FROM COMPANY
COMMANDER BOB DALRYMPLE AND OTHERS.
THANK YOU SO
MUCH.
JEFF A.
HYMAN
jeffhbluegrassmedical@gmail.
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