70 Pleasant St. Cohasset, MA.
02025 ,781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett
Ben517@aol.com
Hello,
I forget to attach Morris McDowell's download of Taps in last Mail
Call.
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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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Lory Curtis
Thanks Ben for the great comments about my Dad, I sure agree
and miss him terribly. As for the book I am only bringing 6 copies because
that is all I have left. I will definitely save one for you. I
wasn't sure if anyone would be that interested in them so I didn't have the
publisher print any more off. If you think there will be interest I will
try and see if he can do a rush order for me. I have a brochure that I
made for people to order books with. I decided it was too hard to have
soft back and hard back books to I have only made hard back books lately.
They are costing me $35 without shipping to print. If you think we could
sell them at the reunion for more, then any profit would go to the 517th.
Of course the soft back books are cheaper. Only $22 without shipping
costs. If you will tell me how many books I should have printed I will try
and get them done. Also if you think the soft back would be a better
seller I will do that. As far as a bio for the book I have it on that
order form that I will email you from my house tonight. I dont have it
here with me at work. Are you expecting me to talk about all the great
things to do here in Salt Lake for a possible site for next
year???
Lory
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Letters Home: A Paratrooper's Story should be in
possession of all 517th PRCT members. It tells it like it is or was to be
in the 517 from Training Camp to the Foxhole from the perspective of an
individual soldier and a great man who wrote over 130 letters home to his mother during
World War II. - Ben
Gina Votti
Thank you, Ben.
Could you please add my father onto your awesome
roster?
Carl E. Votti, Company B.
Gina, daughter
512
An County Rd 147, Palestine, TX 75801
Jay Sutcliff
Hey
Ben,
I’m receiving Mail Call and enjoying it everyday. My
e-mail is screen, but I have the option of receiving it, which of course I do
with regards to Mail Call. Sorry for the confusion, but please continue to send
to the e-mail address you have for me, and thanks for all your hard work, it
does not go unnoticed.
Jay
Rick Sweet
Hi Ben,
I have been
collecting WWII items for a few years now. Would it be appropriate to bring them
and show them to people? I have 2) Nazi Flags and medals and also some bayonets
and a Storm Trooper dagger, to name a few and I also thought about bringing my
13th airborne book because it has a lot of pictures of the 517th including a
couple of my dad and Jim Suttcliffe! What do you think ? Rick
Sweet
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By all means bring them. That is what the reunion is all
about. - Ben
Bev
Strothkamp
Good Afternoon Ben:
Wanted to tell you that I'm finally receiving Mail
Call!!! For some reason they were going to my deleted
files.....
These computers are very humbling!!
Looking forward to meeting you in a few
weeks.
BEV
Lili
Marlene
Lili Marlene is a World War I German Marching song.
The German troops sang it in the trenches, and it was picked up by British,
American, and French troops,
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