From: Ben517@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:06 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 1664- 517TH PRCT- NOVEMBER 23, 2008
70 Pleasant St. Cohasset, MA. 02025 ,781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett  Ben517@aol.com 
 
Hello,
I am trying to find information for Mike Woldenberg about his Uncle Lt. Charles M. Willis who may have been attached to the 460th.He jumped into Southern France August 15, 1944.
 
Leo Dean has notified me that Paul Abbene, a nephew of Bill Boyle , has sent him a donation of over $500.00 for the film project. Others have also donated to this project  You can make a donation to this project by sending a check to Leo payable to the 517th PRCT.
 
Members often send me stories from the internet. However, it would be best if they would send me the link as it would save space in Mail Call and also save me from searching for the link.
 
I meant to send this Mail Call out about 7:00PM but I have been on the phone with Allan Johnson since then. His computer is out of order. His daughters may get him a new computer for Christmas.
 
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
Ben

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517th Annual Florida Mini-Reunion January 17,18,19, 20, 2009

Banquet on the 20th (Tuesday) and Departing on the 21st (Wednesday)

Hosted by: Leila Webb, Location: Ramada Hotel & Inn Gateway

7470 Highway 192 West

Kissimmee, Florida  34747

Tele: 1(800)327-9170          FAX 1(407)396-4320

Contact: Leila Webb, Helen Beddow and Lou Darden

4155 Kissimmee Park Road

St. Cloud, Florida       34772

Tele:(407)892-3595

Room Rate - $65.00            Registration Fee - $40.00


Palm Springs, CA

West Coast Party

April 20-24, 2009

 

Recent website additions:

Sospel 1944 and 2008

Pvt. Richard Whidden, D Company

Col de Braus battle - 64th anniversary

Sospel 1943 and now

3rd Annual 517th Commemorative March, August 2008

Visit to Southern France 2008 with Ignatius Bail, 460th PFAB


Claire Giblin

Hi, Ben -

I am very happy to see that members of the family and friends of the 517th are expressing an interest in making a donation to the cause.

I would love for anyone who might be similarly moved to consider doing so - no donation is too small.

Please consider earmarking your donation for the 517th film project.  Extensive filming was done at the St. Louis reunion, and the filmmaker is currently working on putting together the final project (which is SO much easier to write about than it is to do!).

Thank you all - official and unofficial members of the 517 Association and the Auxiliary - for your interest and support of these wonderful vets!

Claire Giblin


Steve Markle

Just a short issue this week... However... next week is a 25th anniversary of the Christmas 1983 issue. It is sure to bring back a lot of memories...
 
-Steve-
 
Issue;
 
Article and index for all issues;
Happy Thanksgiving to my dad (Richard Wheeler of the 460th B Bty Prcht FA Bn) and wife Katherine.  I’m proud of your service to the country so I could live free in this country.  I wish all of you a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Thank you for fighting for my freedom.  I will never forget it.

 Sue Wheeler Brock


Tom McAvoy

 combat" from a pilot's perspective.


 Link to the past-November 23.,1963

1963: Johnson takes over as president

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Lyndon Baines Johnson, the new President of the United States following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, began his first full day as chief executive today. He was the second Johnson to become president as the result of an assassination. After Abraham Lincoln was killed by John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson became the 17th president of the U.S.

"The new President, who took over with an appeal for the help of God and the American people, held a mid-evening meeting with House and Senate leaders of both parties after conferring with several top administration officials. Johnson, only a few cars back when an assassin's bullet felled his predecessor in a Dallas, Tex., motorcade, held the conferences almost immediately after he arrived back in the capital on the plane that also returned President Kennedy's body," reported the Austin American Statesman on November 23, 1963.

NOTE: Besides finishing Kennedy’s term as President, LBJ would go on to be elected as President in 1964. He was responsible for reforms including Medicaid and Medicare, and for escalating U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He was succeeded by Richard Nixon.



Links to the Past
Links to the Past icon New President Picks Up Reins
The Fresno Bee Republican, November 23, 1963

Links to the Past icon Continued: Johnson Assumes Duties


Links to the Past icon President Johnson
Austin American Statesman, November 23, 1963

Links to the Past icon John Kennedy Assassinated, Lyndon Johnson President
Austin American Statesman, November 23, 1963

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