Hello,
The download is a Christmas Card.May have sent it to some members last year.
Ben
Website--members.aol.com/prct517/ or prct517.home.attbi.com
Mail Call--Ben517@aol.com
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Subj: Re: Mail Call 397 & 398
Date: 12/17/2002 3:17:12 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Genedie77
Hi Ben and all others:
Just read referenced Mail Calls. As many others have said everything came through fine. The picture of troopers trudging thru the snow would have brought back many memories had the memories left me. How we got through it all is a miracle. Happy holidays to all.
Gene Brissey
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Subj: Photos
Date: 12/17/2002 5:13:33 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: thetraveler@pnx.com
Hi Ben --- The photo's came thru for me also --- all those men looked so cold - I don't know how ya'll made it. God Bless each and every one of them.
To all the Paratroopers of the 517th ---
MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR to each and every one of you and your loved ones.
Shirley McCarey
Friend of the 517th
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Subj: Re: picture
Date: 12/17/2002 2:32:24 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Misslissa138
To: PRCT517
Hi Bob. Sorry about the confusion. There is a picture named Antonia Esparza Company 1, it is in the photo section of the website. Under that photo are several other photos. My grandfather Charles Doven looks like the man on the right in the 6th picture. However I am unsure if it is him. He served in 517 3rd battalion Company G. If you have any information on him I would be glad to hear it. Also I know that he has many photos from his time spent in Europe. I would love to be able and add them to your website.
Thank you for your help,
Melissa Minyo_
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Date: 12/18/2002 12:03:22 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: abnvaquero@yahoo.com ( Marshall Baird A Co. )
Thanks Ben, The pictures came thru loud and clear..
I left the Bulge with both feet about three times
their usual size. Didn't get back to the outfit until
after the war was over.. ________________________________________________________________
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Subj: Fwd: Personally I do care for Rush Limbaugh, but I do agree with this article
Date: 12/17/2002 10:57:38 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: zmetoo@hotmail.com ( Sheila Goodman )
By Rush Limbaugh
I think the vast differences in compensation between victims of the
September 11 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 11.
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 11 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 who 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 11 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 50 years of entitlement politics in this country. It's just really sad.
Every time 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
being 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 harm's 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.
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Subj: Maybe you can use this
Date: 12/18/2002 12:36:58 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: trooper@softdisk.com ( Harry Saundera )
To: ben517@aol.com
Ben I found this in some old papers from long ago it was so old that it was on Red Cross paper. I do not know if this is a poem that I wrote or not In thoses days I wrote a few. The Pictures came thru real good It even made my crushed toe hurt. Harry
