Subj: MAIL CALL NO. 543 517TH PRCT--SEPT 12, 03
Date: 09/12/2003 7:00:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: Ben517
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Hello,

I use up ink cartridges frequently and if you do so, it is best to buy them on the internet. They are one third of the price from the manufacturer or at retail stores.

I am considering about asking for a volunteer to take care of the roster of relatives and friends of the 517. I have about all I can do to keep up to date the 517 email roster with all the additions, deletions and changes of address. I can provide anyone with a roster to start with although it is not up to date.

Ben

Website----www.517prct.org

Mail Call---Ben517@aol.com
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Dear Ben: Note to BJ Spencer. I logged a lot of miles with your father. Thanks for Jo’s email address. If you send me yours, I’ll be in touch. We have the welcome mat out for descendants. Dick’s should be represented. Dick was sweating you out when we jumped into S. France on August 15, 1944. At that time Dick didn’t know whether you were a boy or girl. (For young readers, that is the way it was back then.) I would have said you are the daughter who thought her father was in a picture frame rather than the real live trooper who at long last had arrived home. Howard Hensleigh

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BJ Spencer is a female. Bobbi Jo. Thanks for including me on your mailing list! BJ                   
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I had mistaken the initials BJ  for being a male. "Who knew"- Ben
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Hi Ben   I finally made it from Califoria. to Michigan in my new RV It was a long hard trip with just me and my dog. My screen name will be the same WWyatt@AOL.Com;
Phone I changed to 586 758-2729   Address 27244 Palomino Dr. Warren. Mi..48093-
Lost about a month of receiving 517th E-Mail, will be glad to receive it again. 
                                   Bud Wyatt, Hq 2nd Bn, 517
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Q:  What's the difference between an unlucky golfer and an unlucky paratrooper?

A:  The unlucky golfer goes:  Whack!  "Dang!"
      The unlucky paratrooper goes:  "Dang!"   Whack!
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Ben: I'm sure Dick Seitz and Tom Cross know what water craft they were on
from Naples to Civiteveccia, but I can assure you I was on an LST. Bob Dalrymple
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Hello Ben,

I wanted to forward this email from an old friend of mine from Vietnam and the 101st Airborne Division in which we served together in 1968 and 1969.  Berk and I keep in touch and he shared a picture with me along with the story behind it.  Maybe you and other WWII Vets have seen it before.  I printed a copy and sent it to my Father, who by the way absolutely loves reading the mail calls that I send to him, and wanted to share it with all of you.  You are all heroes to me.

Best regards to you,

Dave Knee Jr.

I have edited the following mail-Ben

----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Bergquist
To: Dave and Linda Knee
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 10:02 PM
Subject: Re:



Hi Dave! you too Linda.

I have attached a jpeg file of a litho I came across many years ago in the home of a Pilipino WWII vet that took three 45 slugs across the gut in the Philippines from the Japs.  He was left for dead, but found in time to save his life.  Because I was also a combat infantry vet, he allowed me to take the picture off the wall, out of the the glass frame, and photograph it on his front porch.  It was very faded and brittle.  I had never seen the print before or since anywhere.  But am sure it was popular in WWII.  I enhanced the color and touched up the cracks and tears in Photoshop so it looks pretty nice now....will print out nice as a 5X7.   Your the first one I am sending this to after so many years.  Hope you like it.
Berk
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