The
following was forwarded to us by Gene Frice.
WePledge.com is trying to
secure ten million signatures for the
Constitutional Amendment to save the
Pledge of Allegiance and our National
Motto. This would be the most people to
sign a petition in history! Help
save our Pledge of Allegiance and National
Motto! Please sign the petition
and forward it on to others. To sign the
petition and for more information,
go to www.wepledge.com.
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We
have had the "Pledge of Allegiance" in a previous Mail Call but in
light of the above petition from Gene, I think it is appropriate to
include it again in this Mail.Call.
Ben
Click here: ~*~Pledge Of
Allegiance~*~
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Subj:
(no subject)
Date: 11/5/2002 7:34:36 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: BoomBoomAlicki
To: Ben517
OFF TO WAR (Nation &
World)
"We are uprooting people for a
year or two. They are not at home with their families, not at their civilian
jobs. Individuals will reassess and re-evaluate whether this is worth
it."
--
Lt. Col. Christopher Henes, deputy judge advocate general for
Massachusetts
For members of the National Guard and the Reserves, the
sacrifices asked of them since Sept. 11, 2001 have been an enormous burden. In
that time, these citizen soldiers have been called to duty, both to protect the
home front and to assist abroad in the war on terrorism.
Reservists serve
in the fight against terror, but leaving a family and job takes a
toll.
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Subj:
Re Mail Call 381
Date: 11/6/2002 4:53:58 PM Eastern Standard
Time
From: Genedie77
To: Ben517
It was a pleasant surprise to see the
comments of two men who remember the capture of La Roquette. Our outstanding
Commander, Dick Seitz, no doubt planned and directed the mission. On behalf of
E. Company, I thank him for the kind words and his further observations
concerning the Southern France operation on in to the Sospel area. As for Dick
Hammel, he has my respect and admiration for his effort to carry a mortar
baseplate across that darn river. Those plates are heavy and their shape does
not move through rough water very well. Thanks for letting us know who lost it.
We didn't need it anyway.
I have been back to La
Roquette twice (1990 and 1999). In 1990 a citizen of the village was very
friendly and happy to see my wife, two French couples and me. In all modesty I
suppose he was most glad to see me. He showed me souvenirs of the battle and
escorted us around the village while speaking harsh words about the Germans. He
took us to the burial ground of the Germans who were KIA. In '99, John Krumm
Jr., son of John Sr. an E Co man who was with us in '44, helped make this second
visit more special. Young John had his wife, Irene, with him. We all enjoyed our
tour of the village high above the West side of the Var. As in '44, we continued
on to Sospel on both trips.
Gene
Brissey
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Subj: Fwd: What is a Vet ?
Date: 11/6/2002 11:46:33 AM
Eastern Standard Time
From: jalicki@yahoo.com (Boom Boom Alicki )
To:
Ben517@aol.com
WHAT IS A
VET?
He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in
Saudi Arabia
sweating two gallons a day making sure
the armored personnel carriers didn't
run out of fuel.
He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five
wooden
planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is
outweighed a hundred
times in the cosmic scales by
four hours of exquisite bravery near the
38th
parallel.
She (or he) is the nurse who fought against
futility
and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid
years in Da
Nang.
He is the POW who went away one person and came back
another --
or didn't come back AT ALL.
He is the Parris Island drill instructor who
has never
seen combat -- but has saved countless lives by
turning slouchy,
no-account rednecks and gang members
into Marines, and teaching them to watch
each other's
backs.
He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on
his
ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.
He is the career
quartermaster who watches the ribbons
and medals pass him by.
He is
the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The
Unknowns, whose presence at the
Arlington National
Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of
all
anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with
them on the
battlefield or in the ocean's sunless
deep.
He is the old guy bagging
groceries at the supermarket
-- palsied now and aggravatingly slow -- who
helped
liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long
that his
wife were still alive to hold him when the
nightmares come.
He is an
ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being
-- a person who offered some of
his life's most vital
years in the service of his country, and
who
sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to
sacrifice
theirs.
He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the
darkness,
and he is nothing more than the finest,
greatest testimony on behalf of the
finest, greatest
nation ever known.
So remember, each time you see
someone who has served
our country, just lean over and say Thank You.
That's
all most people need, and in most cases it will mean
more than any
medals they could have been awarded or
were awarded.
Two little words
that mean a lot, "THANK YOU."
It's the soldier, not the reporter, Who
gave us our
freedom of the press.
It's the soldier, not the poet, Who
gave us our
freedom of speech.
It's the soldier, not the campus
organizer, Who gave
us our freedom to demonstrate.
It's the soldier,
Who salutes the flag, Who serves
others with respect for the flag, And whose
coffin is
draped by the flag, Who allows the protester to burn
the
flag.
Prayer for our Servicemen:
Lord, hold our troops in Your loving
hands. Protect
them as they protect us. Bless them and their families
for
the selfless acts they perform for us in our time
of need.
Amen