Hello,

Website-----www.517prct.org

Mail Call---Ben517@aol.com_
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Subj:    Re: MAIL CALL NO. 437 517TH PRCT 
Date: 3/8/2003 4:29:26 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: Dalry596@webtv.net

Dear Ben: Re Mr Storms request concerning a Lester Dalrymple. I and my
brother John had Military Careers. We were both born in Brazil, Indiana:
I on 10 June 1917, John on 10 Feb 1912. I do not know of any other
Dalrymple in te 517th,but one could have joined as a replacement. New
subject : Your messages have capitol A after( or, maybe before) each
sentence? Bob
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Clark Archer has givin me information about Lester Dalrymple and and I have sent it to his grandson-Ben
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Subj: New Stamp available  
Date: 3/9/2003 4:59:03 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: jquinn07@tampabay.rr.com
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Dear Fellow Americans: REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the military Barracks in Saudi
Arabia. REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the American Embassies in Africa.
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the USS COLE.
REMEMBER the MUSLIM attack on the
World Trade Center on 9/11/01.
REMEMBER all the AMERICAN lives that were lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks.
Now the United States Postal Service REMEMBERS and HONORS the EID MUSLIM holiday
season with a Commemorative first class holiday postage stamp. We strongly urge
you to REMEMBER to adamantly and vocally BOYCOTT this stamp when purchasing your
stamps at the post office. To use this stamp would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors.
We also strongly urge you to pass this along to every Patriotic AMERICAN you know,
whether by email or otherwise. To heck with the post office for feeling the need to be
politically correct.
America is turning into a nation of fools.
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Subj: Re: Email from Bob 
Date: 3/8/2003 10:27:02 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: PRCT517
To: lory.curtis@jordan.k12.ut.us
CC: Ben517

In a message dated 3/7/2003 10:04:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, Ben517 writes:

If I understand the email message, Col. Graves wrote some papers that are in the Carlisle Barrack Library and you want to get copies.  I have an Army buddy whose son-in-law is stationed at Carlisle Barracks.  I could ask him to go over and get the copies if you would like?  Let me know?


Lory V. Curtis, son of Harland L. Curtis, 1st Bn 517th.

Lory,

Yes, we would be greatly interested in getting some assistance in checking out the materials at Carlisle.  From their online index, it appears that there are many boxes of records from Walsh, Graves, Cross, Zais, and others.  This would be too much material to copy, of course.  The first step would be to see if someone could get access and just look through some of the material to see what is there and to make a judgment on whether any of it would be useful for the website or for the unit history in general. (e.g. photos of training and W.W.II, especially where soldiers are identified; firsthand accounts of events, etc.)  To be useful for the website, we would have to scan in good copies of the photos and documents, but that would take equipment, time and knowledge.  At this point, we could just use a quick inventory analysis of what is there, and maybe some ideas on whether they would let someone have enough access to the materials to do some on-site scanning.

Anything you might be able to do would be helpful.

Regards,

Bob Barrett
www.517prct.org
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Subj: Dog Tags Across America 
Date: 3/9/2003 8:48:55 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: BoomBoomAlicki
To: Ben517

"As a former Army and Army reservist, starting yesterday I found my old dog
tags and am wearing them outside my shirt in public. It made quite a
statement as I went about my job. When asked, I said that I support our
troops as a veteran and that I totally support President Bush and his
efforts to keep America secure. I'll end the conversation with never again
do I want to see on TV what I saw on the morning of 9/11."

- News & Views reader John Scandone, Hamden, CT
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Subj: Re: MAIL CALL NO. 432 517TH PRCT 
Date: 3/10/2003 9:10:53 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: JBJB93
To: Ben517
Hello,

Great job - thank you for yor efforts.  Can you update the email address of Ed Marconi to

eddymon1@netscape.net
He is the son of the Ed Marconi, Comp A 517 deceased.
Thank you,
John
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Subj: Andy Rooney on the French  
Date: 3/9/2003 9:06:55 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: jquinn07@tampabay.rr.com

Just in case you missed Andy on Sunday night.
  
"You can't beat the French when it comes to food, fashion, wine or
perfume, but they lost their license to have an opinion on world
affairs years ago. They may even be selling stuff to Iraq and don't
want to hurt business.
  
The French are simply not reliable partners in a world where the good
people in it ought to be working together. Americans may come off as
international jerks sometimes but we're usually trying to do the right
thing.
  
The French lost WW II to the Germans in about 20 minutes. Along with
the British, we got into the war and had about 150,000 guys killed
getting their country back for them. We fought all across France, and
the Germans finally surrendered in a French schoolhouse.
  
You'd think that school building in Reims would be a great tourist
attraction, but it isn't. The French seem embarrassed by it. They
don't want to call attention to the fact that we freed them from
German occupation.
  
I heard Steven Spielberg say the French wouldn't even let him film the
D-day scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" on the Normandy beaches. They
want people to forget the price we paid getting their country back for
them.
  
Americans have a right to protest going to war with Iraq. The French
do not. They owe us the independence they flaunt in our face at the UN
  
I went into Paris with American troops the day we liberated it, Aug.
25, 1944. It was one of the great days in the history of the world. French
women showered American soldiers with kisses, at the very least.
  
The next day, the pompous Charles, de Gaulle marched down the mile
long Champs Elysee to the Place de la Concorde as if he had liberated
France himself. I was there, squeezed in among a hundred tanks we'd
given the Free French Army that we brought in with us.
  
When we go to Paris every couple of years now, I rent a car. I drive
around the Place de la Concorde, and when some French driver blows his
horn for me to get out of his way, I just smile and say to myself, Go
ahead, Pierre. Be my guest. I know something about this very place
you'll never know."
  
The French, a third-rate power with a third-rate track record since
the end of W.W.I, have not earned their right to oppose President
Bush's plans to attack Iraq.