70 Pleasant St. Cohasset, MA.
02025 ,781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett Ben517@aol.com
Hello,
Any news about Frank Dallas ? Mail to him has
been returned lately.
Leo Dean has sent me information about the
deaths of Lawrence Hall "I' Co. and Robert J Wilkey "Hq 3". Their families
would like to receive information about their time in the 517.Can someone
in the 3rd battalion help?
Only 19 days left before we will be
in St. Louis. Hope that you will be there. YOU STILL HAVE
TIME TO BE THERE.
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
Ben
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
517TH ST. LOUIS REUNION BEGINS:
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008 THRU MONDAY, JUNE 30,
2008
THE BANQUET WILL BE ON SUNDAY JUNE
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Patricia and Roland Orengo
> hello friends,
this morning before the boarding, Patricia has felt
faint. So, the doctors don't want she takes another flight !!
We have to
cancel all our trip.
We are back home now, she is sleeping.
We are very
upset, it was, for us, a real happiness, to see all of you again.
Ben, we
have had prepared a speech for the 517e, the Mayor of Sospel has given to us a
gift for the 517e.
we are going to try to record a DVD of this speech and
send to you at the hotel of St Louis par Chronopost. I don't know if it will be
easy to do it but we could try.
We miss all of you.
and waiting for
you in Sospel in October 2009 for the 65th anniversary of the liberation of
Sospel
Patricia and Roland Orengo
Sospel, France
***********
Patricia and Roland will be sorely missed at our reunion.- Ben
Chris Lindner
I am sorry to hear the Orengo's are not able to make there trip. I do
know that they were planning to spend a few weeks in the U.S.
Chris
Mary Jane Hanron
Hi Ben,
I was wondering
if you would add my brother, David to your email list to receive “Mail Call.”
His email is d.hanron@earthlink.net .
I often share it with him and he loves it…he reads every word!! His kids have
used it, too for reference for school.
Thanks so much.
Mary Jane
Hanron
Chris Lindner
Hi Ben:
TO MICHAEL WELLS,
By all means please bring the paper that you would
like the veterans to sign. I know they would be happy to sign this for you
(as Ben has already said) and I think it would be a very
special thing to have in your office.
What a great idea you had.
Chris Lindner
co-chairperson of the St. Louis Reunion
Frederic
Brega
Dear
Ben,
I hope you
are doing well. I am really sad that I cannot join you all at the forthcoming
reunion, but it is a long way from Nice….I wish you all plenty of good time, and
would like to thank you again for the kind invitation to join you.
This email concerns a recent exceptional
story:
A few
weeks ago, I had the chance to find a dog tag in the Col de Braus area. The tag was with several
US and
French coins from the 30’s. Apparently, the chain broke du to the weight of the coins.
After a
short search, I identified the tag to be from Pvt.
Richard L. Whidden of 517th – D Company. I continued my investigation
in the US Social Security records, and discovered that Richard Whidden died in
2000 in Florida,
unfortunately.
However, I
had the possibility to get in touch with his son Marc, who kindly communicated
to me a few pictures of his father, most of the them taken in
Southern
France, we
clearly recognise Nice and the Sospel area.
I wanted
to shared these pictures with you.
With best
regards,
Frederic
Brega
Sales Director
frederic@zeades.com
When the Lights Go On Again All Over
The World-Vera Lynn
Copy link below onto your URL.-Ben
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzlFaY0s_QI