From: Ben517@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 8:40 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 1690- 517TH PRCT-JANUARY 1, 2009
 
70 Pleasant St. Cohasset, MA. 02025 ,781 383 0215 * Mail Call : Ben Barrett  Ben517@aol.com 
 
 
Hello,
 
HAPPY NEW YEAR
(The value of your car just depreciated by several thousand dollars.)

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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

                                                                  National Reunion

Palm Springs, CA                                                Salt Lake City

West Coast Party                                                July 2009

April 20-24, 2009

Eddy Monfort

Dear Friends,
 
We wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009
full joy and good health
 
Eddy Monfort and Family
Babbie Boyle
Happy New Year to you and all. Am looking forward to the mini in  a little over 2 weeks. Babbie
Patricia and Roland Orengo
 
Hi 517th,
Patricia and Roland (patouetroland@wanadoo.fr) has send an electronic greeting card for you. View the greeting by clicking http://ecards.webindia123.com/show.asp?id=432940986348418 . You can see your card at any time with in 60 days
Rick Sweet
Happy New Year! May the next one be much better than the last!
                       The Sweet's
Nello Arterburn
 
Larry Zickefosse
Hello Ben,

Need some help.  Want to purchase a copy of Letters Home: A Paratrooper's Story by  Lory Curtis.

 My mother wants to get a copy for my dad.  Can you give me a contact, or if he reads this he can contact me at zick@fuse.net

 Thanks

Tom McAvoy
Happy New Year....
 
Here is a very good message that was
apparently composed about this time
last year... and it is good enough for 
New Year 2009!!   

 
   OR
 

Do you understand that note from Nicolas Arnulf?  It is probably an automatic Out-of-Office reply.  It says something like

Out until January 5th

I would ask you not to send [un] important messages in order not to overload my inbox. thank you.   

Now he tells me - Ben
Boyd Ellis
 
-----: On the Experience of War: Author unknown

"I now know why men who have been to war yearn to reunite. Not to
tell stories or look at old pictures. Not to laugh or weep. Comrades gather
because they long to be with the men who once acted at their best; men
who suffered and sacrificed together, who were stripped of their humanity.
I did not pick these men. They were delivered by fate and the military.
But, I know them in a way I know no other men.

I have never given anyone such trust. They were willing to guard something
more precious than my life. They would have carried my reputation, the
memory of me. It was part of the bargain we all made, the reason we were
so willing to die for one another. As long as I have memory, I will think of
them all, every day. I am sure that when I leave this world, my last
thought will be of my family and my comrades... Such good men."

-- Author Unknown