Subj: MAIL CALL NO. 364 517TH PRCT
Date: 09/28/2002 9:18:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: Ben517
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Hello,
We would like to
receive more short articles for Recollections on the
website.
Ben
Website--prct517.home.attbi.com or
members.aol.com/prct517/
.
Mail
Call--Ben517@aol.com
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The above was sent to me
by Tom
Reber
Ben
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Peter Lannen
Date: 9/26/2002 12:32:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: AARGoodman
To: Ben517, MMcmor8391
Peter
Lannen of Spokane Washington wrote the column in the Static line about the Air
Force on Christmas Day 1944. He wrote this for the 596 Wings ten years ago. I
have been told that Peter pased away last year,2001. Thought you should know. Al
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Subj: Re: MAIL CALL
NO.362 517 PRCT
Date: 9/26/2002 10:08:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: reber83@mindspring.com
Dear Ben,
I hope you are well. I just would like to let you know
to delete my old e-mail address (reber83@mindspring.com) and replace it
with this new one:
reber83@insightbb.com
We had a new telephone company
come in and they wiped out my old Internet Service Provider. So I wiped
out the new telephone company by switching my phone service to go through the
cable company.
Thank you for keeping us all up to date with Mail
Call.
I hope that all of the fellas with the knee replacements are
progressing well.
Best regards,
Tom Reber
son of Lt. Bob Reber (HQ
3rd)
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Absent Communication
Date: 9/26/2002 10:33:05 PM Eastern Daylight
Time
From: Tomx517
Ben:
It has been real quiet
in this sector for some time as you have so observed. It may because for the
first time in my memory I have been listening and reading instead of "bugling."
Last week I was on my way to Fort Lee,
VA to participate in a Parachute Rigger Reunion and also attend a history
seminar/panel and I had a rather bad auto accident outside of Fayetteville, NC
Fortunately we were not injured but as Elvis Presley frequently put into musical
lyrics were "all shook up." Dick Seitz found out and made a welcomed personal
inquiry on our well being and I mentioned to him that it seemed just normal to
have the accident right outside the Home of the Airborne. Sort of like it is the
routine occurrence for that area. The NC State Trooper that investigated my
accident thought so too.
Will be up and
transmitting shortly. Best to you and the gang. Regards,
Tom
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Fwd: (no subject)
Date: 9/28/2002 7:54:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: MMcmor8391
To: Ben517
Whether you like Rush
>Limbaugh
or not, what he has to say here makes sense.
>
>By Rush Limbaugh
>
>I think the vast differences in compensation between the
victims of
>the September 11th casualty, and those who die serving the
country
>in uniform, are profound. No one is really talking about it
either
>because you just don't criticize anything having to do with
>September 11th. Well, I just can't let the numbers pass by because
>it says something really disturbing about the entitlement mentality
>of this country.
>
>If you lost a family member in the
September 11th attack, you're
>going to get an average of $1,185,000. The
range is a minimum
>guarantee of $250,000, all the way up to $4.7
million.
>
>If you are a surviving family member of an American
soldier killed
>in action, the first check you get is a $6,000 direct
death benefit,
>half of which is taxable. Next, you get $1,750 for burial
costs. If
>you are the surviving spouse, you get $833 a month until you
>remarry. And there's a payment of $211 per month for each child
>under 18. When the child hits 18, those payments come to a
>screeching halt.
>
>Keep in mind that some of the people
that are getting an average of
>$1.185 million up to $4.7 million are
complaining that it's not
>enough. We also learned over the weekend that
some of the victims
>from the Oklahoma City bombing have started an
organization asking
>for the same deal that the September 11th families
are getting. In
>addition to that, some of the families of those bombed
in the
>embassies are now asking for compensation as well.
>
>You see where this is going, don't you? Folks, this is part and
>parcel of over fifty years of entitlement politics in this country.
>It's just really sad.
>
>Every time when a pay raise comes
up for the military they usually
>receive next to nothing of a raise. Now
the green machine is in
>combat in the Middle East while their families
have to survive on
>food stamps and live in low rent housing.
>
>However our own U.S. Congress just voted themselves a raise, and
>many of you don't know that they only have to be in Congress
>one-time to receive a pension that is more than $15,000 per month
>and most are now equal to be millionaires plus. They also do not
>receive Social Security on retirement because they didn't have to
>pay into the system.
>
>If some of the military people
stay in for 20 years and get out as
>an E-7 you may receive a pension of
$1,000 per month, and the very
>people who placed you in harms way
receive a pension of $15,000 per
>month.
>
>I would like to
see our elected officials pick up a weapon and join
>ranks before they
start cutting out benefits and lowering pay for
>our sons and daughters
who are now fighting. "When do we finally do
>something about this??"
>