From: Ben517@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 9:35 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 1550- 517TH PRCT-MAY24, 2008
   70 Pleasant St. Cohasset, MA. 02025 ,781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett  Ben517@aol.com 
 
Hello,
 
 
Sign up today for National Reunion. Only 34 days until we will be in St, Louis. 
 
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. Try to make August 15 as the deadline date so that we wont forget to make annual contributions.
Website                                   www.517prct.org                                                        
Mail Call                                  Ben517@aol.com
Mail Call Archives                 www.517prct.org/archives
Roster                                     www.517prct.org/roster.pdf

 
 517TH ST. LOUIS REUNION BEGINS:
 
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008 THRU MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2008
THE BANQUET WILL BE ON SUNDAY JUNE 29

Information and Registration Forms:
 formatted pdf forms simple Web Page format
Sheraton Westport Registration Form
Reunion schedule of Events
517th Reunion Registration Form		 Sheraton Westport Registration Form
Reunion schedule of Events
517th Reunion Registration Form
Chris Lindner
 
 WOULD LIKE TO WISH EVERY
 
VETERAN A VERY HAPPY MEMORIAL
 
DAY AND THANK THEM FOR ALL THEY
 
HAVE DONE.
 
A SPECIAL THANKS TO THE MEN OF THE
 
517TH PARACHUTE REGIMENTAL COMBAT
 
TEAM AND THEIR FAMILIES.
 
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS !!!!!!! ALWAYS !!!!!
 
Chris Lindner
Bob Barrett
 
Erin Joyce Scoggins
 To whom it may concern:

May name is Erin Joyce Scoggins. May grandfather was Norman E Ross. He passed away not long ago. I am attempting to put together a photo album/scrapbook in his memory. I am currently looking for some additional information.

I know, he was part of the 517th (company C) parachute infantry. I know that he entered into service in September of 1943 and served until October of 1945. I currently have two photos of him in his uniform, his honorable discharge papers and certificate.

I am looking for any information, stories, pictures or people who may have known him in hopes of honoring my hero.

Thank you for your help.

Erin 

 Matt Myers

 Ben,

 
I LOVE the "Stars and Stripes" pages you've been enclosing in the mailcalls!  Keep 'em coming!  Sad that in my own lifetime of just over 30 years I've never seen reporting so supportive of our military and critical of our enemies.  Granted, it was written for the troops, but it's a long, long way from anything I'm ever likely to read today.  I especially noticed the article "4 months are plenty, says navy fighter ace" in mailcall 1547, where a flyer who had served 7 months' continuous duty was suggesting that 4 was plenty.  Can you imagine that in today's news?  Instead of a paragraph, it would have been a front page spread with "expert" opinions of the strain caused by such service, criticism of commanders for demanding so much from our troops, and cries of being ill-prepared to rotate troops out more often!
 
Thanks!
 
Matt Myer
 December 18 , 1944