Hello,

The download was sent to us by Boyd Ellis.
Ben

Website----www.517prct.org

Mail Call---Ben517@aol.com

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Subj: OK CITY REUNION INTERVIEWS 
Date: 4/17/2003 10:01:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: brianebehrens@hotmail.com

Ben,

I was hoping you might put the word out in MAIL CALL during the coming weeks
concerning my work on the Camp Toccoa Veterans Project.  I will be attending
the the reunion in OK City and will be there all week to meet and interview
veterans interested in contributing to the project.

I am compiling oral histories for the the Stephens County Historical Museum
in Toccoa, GA, for the purpose of creating an archive of interviews of
veterans who began their Airborne training at Toccoa.  While I am interested
in capturing details on their Toccoa days, it is equally important to be
able to secure their memories of their time in advanced training after
Toccoa and in the ETO.  Also, I will not limit my interviews to Toccoa
veterans only---all veterans have equally important experiences to share and
I would like to hear from them if they so desire.

I am asking that those veterans in attendance please bring with them their
photos from their time at Toccoa as well as North Carolina, Tennessee and
Europe. I will be able to make copies of the veterans' photos at the reunion
using a digital scanner that I am bringing with me.

FOR THOSE 517TH VETERANS NOT ABLE TO ATTEND THE OK CITY REUNION I CAN
ARRANGE A PHONE INTERVIEW WITH YOU AS MEANS OF COLLECTING YOUR HISTORY.

Brian Behrens
7555 Cavaletti Circle
Cumming, GA 30040
brianebehrens@hotmail.com
(770) 667-3320
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Subj: Vital Role 
Date: 4/17/2003 9:06:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: BoomBoomAlicki
To: Ben517

"The Weasels [France, Germany and Russia] want the United Nations to play a
'central' role in the reconstruction of Iraq. President Bush and British
Prime Minister Tony Blair have offered the United Nations a 'vital' role.
The difference is this: A 'central' role means running the operation. A
'vital' role means swabbing the latrines."

- Columnist Jack Kelley
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Subj: Paris, April 3 (Reuters) -- 
Date: 4/17/2003 9:45:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: newacct1088254 ( Boom Boom )

President Jacques Chirac announced today that France would be deploying two elite units of French troops to Iraq to assist in the current hostilities.
 
Five hundred crack troops from the 2nd Groupement d'Instruction en Abandonment (2nd Surrender Instruction Group) are mobilizing to assist the Iraqi Army in the finer points of military surrender.
 
"The immediate capitulation of an armed force is a delicate and intricate tactic in which we French have much experience." said Defence Ministry spokesperson General de Armee Francois-Phillippe Hommes de Petit-Pommes. "There is a certain protocol in laying down your arms or fleeing the battlefield. To wave the white flag while remaining arrogant, pompous and insufferable requires experience and training."

The French Army believes it is second to none in the fine art of surrendering quickly. The record of our armed forces in that area speaks for itself. "The Iraqi performance in giving up without a fight during the last Gulf War was commendable but slip-shod. We hope to improve their level of surrender execution for the next war."
 
General Hommes de Petit-Pommes further announced that 1000 advisors from the Regiment de Collaborateurs Francais will also be dispatched to Iraq to assist the Iraqi people in colloborating effectively with any occupation force. "It is more important to protect their art treasures and dining establishments than to defend their honor," the General pointed out.

The General also expressed the hope that Baghdad has some tree-lined boulevards. "It was our experience that the Germans liked to march in the shade, and we feel the Americans and the British might like that same measure of comfort in Iraq---especially as warm weather settles in this spring."  
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Subj: Who Stands Alone 
Date: 4/17/2003 10:43:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: JDWildlifeAcres ( Donald Saunders )
To: Ben517
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Nila Gott also sent this to us.-Ben

The statement this makes is profound!

Who Stands Alone:
>
>Eleven thousand soldiers lay beneath the dirt and
>stone, all buried on a distant land so far away from home.
>For just a strip of dismal beach they paid a hero's price,
>to save a foreign nation they all made the sacrifice.
>
>And now the shores of Normandy are lined with blocks of
>white, Americans who didn't turn from someone else's plight.
>Eleven thousand reasons for the French to take our side,
>but in the moment of our need, they chose to run and hide.
>
>Chirac said every war means loss, perhaps for France that's
>true, for they've lost every battle since the days of Waterloo.
>Without a soldier worth a damn to be found in the region,
>the French became the only land to need a Foreign Legion.
>
>You French all say we're arrogant. Well hell, we've earned the right--
>We saved your sorry nation when you lacked the guts to fight.
>But now you've made a big mistake, and one that you'll regret;
>you took sides with our enemies, and that we won't forget.
>
>It wasn't just our citizens you spit on when you turned,
>but every one of ours who fell the day the towers burned.
>You spit upon our soldiers, on our pilots and Marines,
>and now you'll get a little sense of just what payback means.
>
>So keep your Paris fashions and your wine and your champagne,
>and find some other market that will buy your aeroplanes.
>And try to find somebody else to wear your French cologne,
>for you're about to find out what it means to stand alone.
>
>You see, you need us far more than we ever needed you.
>America has better friends who know how to be true.
>I'd rather stand with warriors who have the will and might,
>than huddle in the dark with those whose only flag is white.
>
>I'll take the Brits, the Aussies, the Israelis and the rest,
>for when it comes to valor we have seen that they're the best.
>We'll count on one another as we face a moment dire,
>while you sit on the sideline with a sign "friendship for hire."
>
>We'll win this war without you and we'll total up the cost,
>and take it from your foreign aid, and then you'll feel the loss.
>
>And when your nation starts to fall, well Frenchie, you can spare us,
>just call the Germans for a hand, they know the way to Paris.

       Ben, I thought you would like this. See you in Ok. City
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Subj: Re: MAIL CALL NO. 465 517TH PRCT 
Date: 4/17/2003 11:46:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: Blchestnut

Ben,
  I think  that I have a clue about the letter that chrislindner@bellsouth.net was talking about in his letter to you. He states that his mother wrote his father a letter addressed to B Co., 517 and had an A.P.O. on it .
   That date the letter was written the 517th was located in Fort Bragg, N.C. and had been recently deactivated or in the process. Personnel of the old 517th were reassigned to the 505th, 82nd Airborne Division then at Fort Bragg.
    I was in this group of men that was transferred from the 517th to the 505th, 82nd. and I took part in the deactivation.  I Graduated from the 82nd NCO Academy and was assigned as Platoon Sargeant, Mortar Platoon,Hq. Co., 1st Bn., 505th P.I.R.. I
have a picture of this company commanded then by Lt. James M. Townsend. Lt. "Pop" Moreland was the mortor platoon leader
    The letter Chris is talking about probably caught up with his dad at Fort Bragg.
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                                                                                    Bruce Chestnut
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Subj: Snow In Labrador 
Date: 4/18/2003 11:37:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: newacct1088254 ( Boom Boom )
To: Ben517

http://www.edu.gov.nf.ca/snow/photo.htm