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Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 1625,-517TH PRCT--SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
70 Pleasant St. Cohasset, MA. 02025 ,781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett  Ben517@aol.com 
 
Hello,
 
Please let me know if you want to receive Mail Calls or if you have a problem receiving them. You can always read back 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
Barney Hekkala
 
Hi Ben:  No problems on receiving the Mail Calls from you.  Just keep them coming.  You are doing a splendid job!  Barney Hekkala, Company A
Gina Votti
 
Thank you, Ben and Claire, for all that you have done and are doing to
preserve the legacy of the 517th and their comrades.  It is only because
of these brave men that we have anything to give at all.

Yesterday I visited an 80-year-old man who, with his wife, still run a
large diary farm.  He enlisted for the post WW II clean-up in Europe,
and served 4 years.

I told him about my father -- and he replied with a sense of awe --
"yes, I heard about those men.  They jumped right into machine gun fire..."

Gina Votti
daughter of Carl Votti, Company B
Nicolas Arnuff
 
Dear Ben !
 
Hi, my name is Nicolas ARNULF, I'm 28 years old. I'm fond of my region's history (I'm living in l'Escarène) and I'm a reenactment practitioner. In 2007 & 2008, Forty Four Memories members and me have organized some private reenactions about fighting positions of 1944. Forty Four Memories's aim is to pay homage to Americans fighters in France.
 
This year, thanks to Roland Orengo from Sospel and Touët de l'Escarène and Sospel municipalities, I have pleasure to organize a big public commemoration in order to remember what young Americans did long time ago...
 
During those 2 official days, let's think about all 517th PRCT veterans.
 
P.S : Can you put this programm on the 517th website with a link on the main-page ?
 
Thanks for all.
 
 

Touët de l’Escarène – Col de Braus – Sospel

Remember days – 04 & 05 October 2008

Col de Braus fights 64the anniversary

PROGRAMM

 

Saturday, October, the 4th– Touët de l’Escarène :

09H00 Meet on Col de Braus’s car park

10H00 People and authority gathering on Braus’ tunnel bend and railway

11H00 Resistance arrival followed by American fight section from " D " du 517th PIR (Parachute Infantry Regiment) company who comes from " plantailles ", run alongside railway

11H15 517th car’s convoy arrival from the village

11H30 Remember ceremony on fight place

11H45 Troops’ walk departure followed by cars (Church’s place)

12H00 Material and cars’ exhibition

12H15 Forty Four Memories’s history speech

12H30 Aperitif

13H00 Participant free lunch (given by municipality)

15H00 Fight commemorative walk departure train to Col de Braus

16H00 Car’s departure

Col de Braus

 

18H00 US camp move where P.C. was on fight’s beginning

18H00 Fight’s place visit by car

19H30 Lunch, night under tents

 

Sunday, October, the 5th 2008 – Sospel :

 

09H00 Convoy departure train to Col de l’Ablé

09H30 Walk departure by " Guiou " small valley

12H00 Sospel arrival followed by cars

12H30 Welcome, free aperitif given by municipality, followed by lunch and Agaisen’s fort visit

16H00 Back to Col de Braus by car, end of the event

 

* Thanks to take your lunch for Saturday evening, and Sunday noon and US’sleep material (I have to check with Col’s hostel if it can be opened at night)

* Women should wear civil age clothes

* Clothes to wear (for Americans) are M42 camo (Dragoon’s effect) on Saturday and M43 mustard clothes (Col de Braus’ fight effects) on Sunday

Subscribe : Nicolas Arnulf au 06 18 94 59 82.

narnulf@cg06.fr   

Ben, I don't know if you remember me, I'm Louis Holzworth's granddaughter.  Does someone have a list of those interviewed?  When was the St. Louis reunion?  I'm guessing this was done after Jan 2007.  I was very fortunate to receive an audio interview with Louis.  Thank you.

Kathy McWilliams
Mechanicsville, VA

Bob Dalrymple

Ben: for General Seitz : Dear Dick. I did not know you were ill. I Pray for your rapid recovery and back to your old dynamic self soon. Bob Dalrymple
Gina Votti

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 17, 2008

National POW/MIA Recognition Day, 2008
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America

On National POW/MIA Recognition Day, we honor the brave and patriotic Americans who were held as prisoners of war, and we remember those who are still missing in action. For their valor and selfless devotion to protect the country they love, our Nation owes them a debt we can never fully repay. On this day we underscore our commitment and pledge to those who are still missing in action and to their families that we will not rest until we have achieved the fullest possible accounting for every member of our Armed Forces missing in the line of duty.

To observe this important day, the National League of Families POW/MIA flag is flown over the Capitol, the White House, the World War II Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and other locations across our country. The flag is a solemn reminder of our Nation's enduring obligation and promise to our courageous service members who remain missing and a tribute to those who have been imprisoned while serving their country in conflicts around the world.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Friday, September 19, 2008, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. I call upon the people of the United States to join me in honoring and remembering all former American prisoners of war and those missing in action for their valiant service to our Nation. I also call upon Federal, State, and local government officials and private organizations to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.

GEORGE W. BUSH
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