From: DGentry509@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:17 PM
To: webmaster@517prct.org
Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 464 517TH PRCT April 16, 2003
Hello,

A Light day for mail, but we can usually depend on Boom Boom  for a few unbiased gems .
I also had the pleasure to talk to Boom Boom today. Unfortunately because of physical ailments he will not be able to attend the June reunion.

Ben

Website---www.517prct.org

Mail Call---Ben517@aol.com
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Subj: Important Message for Anti-War Goofballs 
Date: 4/15/2003 9:23:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: BoomBoomAlicki
To: Ben517

"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which
is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and
has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of
better men than himself."

- John Stuart Mills, 19th century British philosopher
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_Subj: Some Conquerors 
Date: 4/15/2003 9:26:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: BoomBoomAlicki
To: Ben517

"...I didn't hear anything better than the almost uniform responses coming
from a bunch of Marines gathered around to watch still another Saddam statue
come down, this time in the center of Baghdad. One after the other, as the
microphone was passed around, they expressed a single, simple sentiment when
asked what they thought about the significance of these events:  'Oh, boy.
Soon we get to go home.'

"There was no talk of glorious victory, military strategy, a thousand-year
empire, their own heroics - just of getting back to mom or dad, wife or
sweetheart, home sweet home. Some imperialists. Some conquerors."

- Columnist Paul Greenberg
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Subj: Studio Embedded Generals 
Date: 4/15/2003 9:30:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: BoomBoomAlicki
To: Ben517

"Among the most prominent (Iraqi war plan critics) were retired Army Gens.
Barry R. McCaffrey and Wesley K. Clark, who regularly took to the cable-news
channels to predict a longer and more difficult battle for control of
Baghdad than actually unfolded.

"Retired Air Force Gen. Thomas G. McInerney, however, was virtually alone in
predicting a quick defeat of Saddam's regime. In an op-ed piece he wrote for
the Wall Street Journal in early October, Gen. McInerney predicted a
'campaign that will be over within 30 days and have less casualties than we
had in Desert Storm with a smaller attacking force.'

"...Gen. McInerney says the faith that he and war planners in the Bush
administration had that air power combined with a nimble ground force would
quickly topple Saddam's regime was vindicated. He says the real grumblers
were those experts who were pushing another agenda.  'Wesley Clark is going
to run for president, so he had to go against President Bush. McCaffrey is
an army general, so he was trying to build a larger army...,' Gen. McInerney
said."

- Washington Times, 4/13/03
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Subj: Mo Kunkel 
Date: 4/16/2003 4:43:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: rbarrett@alum.mit.edu
To: ben517@aol.com

I also ran across this article from Mo Kunkel, Memorial Day 2001:
 
http://www.nwamorningnews.com/pdfarchive/2001/November/12/11-12-01%20A6.pdf
 
You may have to zoom in or print it to read it all.

Bob
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Subj:  
Date: 4/16/2003 4:54:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: bobx517@juno.com ( Bob Christie )
To: Ben517@aol.com

Thanks for the cards. I meant to ask you for some. I haven't had any for
quite a while. I sent the roster to Bob to put on the Website on Monday
and already have three corections and one addition.I received an
interesting letter from Elizabeth Smith (widow of Rossa Elbert Smith).
She said he was an Ammunition Sergeant in Hq.2nd. She is a volunteer at
the National D-Day Museum founded by Stephen Ambrose. She lives in
Metairie,Louisiana.She is on the roster but not on my mailing which I
have been updating.She had planned to attend the Kissimmee reunion but
had bronchitis. See you in OK.Bob
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