Subj: Madawaska Victory
Date: 3/23/2002 1:31:42 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: donaldm@thestreetfamily.com
Ben...The name of the ship (a 2 stacker) was the Madawaska
Victory...I recall as we were sailing up the Hudson River in
New York, small craft pulled along side.. They had bands with
some dancing girls...It seems to me one trooper dove off the
ship with an effort to swim over and get tangled up with the
gals...Don Street, G Company...
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Subj: S.S.Oneida Victory
Date: 3/19/2002 12:50:36 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: RCooper663
To: Ben517
File: RCooper Embarkation Doc 45.jpg (626695 bytes) DL Time (TCP/IP): < 1 minute
Ben:
Maybe this will clear up some of the controversy over the ships we came home on.
Bob Cooper
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Subj: Picture
Date: 3/23/2002 1:35:41 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: mattdeo@g2a.net
Hi Ben, We are not on AOL but we did receive the picture! Thanks for
including us on Mail Call.Matt Greene.
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Subj: Re: MAIL CALL NO. 259 517TH PRCT
Date: 3/23/2002 2:14:04 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: rcbc24@msn.com
Ben, I'm on msn and I did not get the attachment on your mail if March 23rd. Just so you will know...Randolph Coleman
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Subj: Picture
Date: 3/23/2002 8:44:22 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: eharger@chartermi.net
Ben:
I got it, looks great.
Anxious to read 'bout the Hurtgen - I think that is where I(and a few others) had our first warm night, and meal (potatos, Beef and milk) Newly battle
field
commissioned, Lt. Bob Morgan showed us how to butcher a dry cow . Hensleigh missed out on that one, Ha.
Blue Skies
El
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Subj: Friend of the 517th
Date: 3/23/2002 11:41:46 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: thetraveler@pnx.com
Hi Ben -- Just read Mail Call No. 259 --- I'm not with AOL but did receive a picture with latest Mail Call --- I'm having no problems receiving Mail Call thank goodness, cuz I sure love reading every email you receive.
Shirley McCarey
Friend of the 517th
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Subj: 517 Mail Call
Date: 3/24/2002 12:19:20 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: obmb@msn.com
Hi Ben,
We are still not getting your 517 Mail Call - Dixie Welborn is forwarding them to us.
Do you have any idea why all of a sudden we are not receiving them. Please reply .
They are so great and of great interest to both me and my wife,
Thanks,
Oscar Berg, C-517
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Subj: portrait
Date: 3/24/2002 7:15:22 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: bbarnes@tusco.net
Hi Ben
Not on AOL but the portrait you sent on 3-23-02 and all the Mail Calls
are being received
regularly. Thank you for all the time and effort that
you put into the website.
Hi to Fran from Lu and me.
Bob
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Subj: feelings
Date: 3/24/2002 2:50:19 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: hammel@coastalnet.com
To: Ben517@aol.com
All this talk about memories makes me sad. There is so much I cant remember.
I remember breaking my leg in jump school and making my last jump ithe last of January. Oh yes I was one of the early members of Co E in Toccoa. My 6th jump was into Southern France. I remember the wet and cold of
Tennessee. Eating C rations in a ditch in Italy beside a dead German artillery horse. The tall white officers with the short Japanese men of the 442 inf Regt relieving us in Italy. Jump into the fog in southern France. Looseimg the baseplate of my 60
mortar during a river crossing.
Transferring to Hq 2 and trying to satisfy the Sgt Major and Operations Sgt with exactness in spelling etc in typing after action reports. The cold and snow of the bulge. Late
Christmas dinner with so much food for the few of us. I guess there is a lot that I dont want to remember. Dick Hammel.
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Subj: Re: MAIL CALL NO. 260 517TH PRCT
Date: 3/24/2002 4:51:29 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: milegrinder@msn.com
Ben,
Great to hear Hawley's comments; I definitely enjoyed them.
Keep the mailcalls coming!!
Matt Myers
(grandson, J. Talarico)
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Subj: john marsinko
Date: 3/24/2002 5:38:05 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: schaef@txucom.net
To: ben517@aol.com
John Marsinko is my father-in-law . Walt Smith wrote him recently about your 517th website .As he doesn't have a computer , I hope you could send any 517th related material that i can print and forward to him. Also, I will scan and send any of his material to you for inclusion to your newsletter. Sincerely, Bob Schaefer
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Subj: Mail Call
Date: 3/24/2002 6:06:24 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: obmb@msn.com
Hello Ben,
This is Martha Berg - Oscar's Secretary (ha ha) - anyway your message came by way of our great friend Dixie Welborn (Brian's
Secretary (ha ha). Thanks to Dixie, we are receiving your Mail Call as she forwards it to us. We will have to get with msn perhaps
chastise Bill Gates - about our non receipt of your mail call which we enjoy so very much.
Incidentally, we received that information from General Hawley ( Hope I have his name correct)- which was a boss of my now retired nephew Maj. James Rainey.
The General had sent it to Jim and he felt it was important enough to forward it on to us.
Anyway, Ben, until we can find out the hold up on receiving Mail Call direct, Dixie will forward it to us. We hate to change our e-mail address as it means notifying so many people, so if we can get msn on the ball, it will be much easier.
Thanks for all you do,
Martha Berg
____________________________________________________________Subj: Change of address
Date: 3/24/2002 1:30:01 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: mardy111826@msn.com
Ben:
My hard drive crashed and I got a new computer. My new address is mardyc111826@msn.com
Happy Easter
Mardy
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Subj: Re: MAIL CALL NO. 260 517TH PRCT
Date: 3/24/2002 8:09:11 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Wild bill 517
To: Ben517
Good Letter
Bill Boyle
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Subj: Fw: Schwartzkopf Quote
Date: 3/24/2002 7:49:15 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: jharob@attbi.com
To: Ben517@aol.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Hal Roberts
Date: Sunday, March 24, 2002 12:29 PM
Subject: Schwartzkopf Quote
from Frank Every now and then it takes a true military mind to come up with a classic quote!
In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkopf was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harbored and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America.
His answer: "I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting"
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Subj: Returned mail: Service unavailable
Date: 3/24/2002 11:35:03 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: MAILER-DAEMON@aol.com
To: Ben517@aol.com
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