Entry of Apr 5, 2001
at 19:11 [EST]
Name: M.
Unit: G Co. 517th.
EMail:
How I found the 517th page: Heard from a member of the 517th
Comments: Guess it's time to sign on, especially since I find no other G Co.
members registered. I remember Bill Pencak, as the 3rd. Bn. was forming at
Fort Benning, he was training the future machine gunners. (I was one.) He had
us dry firing and working them bolts 'til "we sweat blood"! Any other Combat
Team members still jumping? I am a member of the Relatively North Skydiving
Club and the United States Parachute Association. I jump on a regular basis,
every weekend from Apr. to Nov. Rest of year as weather (clear skies)
permits. 1388 free falls, make 80-125 jumps per year. Going for 2000 and that
diamond on my Gold (1000) free fall wings. See you in Bismark, ND.
Blue Skies El

This entry has to be from Ellsworth Harger.
Ben___________________________________________________________

Subj: Re:
MaIL CALL no. 82
Date: 4/5/2001 10:06:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:    srdd@earthlink.net (Diane)
To:    Ben517@aol.com
Behind on reading my email.  My address is srdd@earthlink.net.   The letters
are the first letters in my family's name. (Sarah, Ruth, Diane, Dave).   I
had to switch it around when I went with earthlink because some one already
had ddrs. Sorry for all the confusion.    Still enjoy getting the emails. I
live in Arkansas, so I make copies of the emails and mail them to my father,
Robert Pitts, in Alabama. Thank You, Diane
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Subj: Bronze Star
Date: 4/5/2001 10:11:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:    littlebill01@msn.com (william cornett)
To:    Ben517@aol.com (Ben)
Ben;
My father, Ssgt Joe Cornett, "I" Co. was awarded the Bronze Star Medal in
Oct. 1996.
Can you tell me the procedure to get him listed on the web page for receiving
this award.
I can't tell you how much this web site means to me. Dad never said much
about his experience in Europe during the war, and thanks to you guys I'm
learning what he, and the rest of you heroes went through.
Thanks Again;
Bill Cornett
He is on the list now.
Ben
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Subj: Re: Mail Call NO, 84
Date: 4/5/2001 10:43:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: CackyG
To: Ben517
Thanks for keeping the roster updated.  I just don't have the patience to
update it everytime someone decides to change their e-mail address.  I always
wait until you do it and then just copy the whole thing into the address
book.  I appreciate you doing all the tedious work for me.

We had trouble with AOL mail.......sending, receiving, reading, etc.......all
day today.  I was ready to cuss a few times but decided not to.  I figured if
I did, the Easter Bunny wouldn't come see me and it's almost time for his
visit.

I enjoyed the rest of the 1959 sayings.  They bring back a lot of memories.

Dot
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Subj: FUTURE REUNION INFORMATION
Date: 4/5/2001 11:31:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: PancakeII
To: Ben517
Ben if you will send me your postal mailing address I will send you the
information about future reunions that you requested. If you have no
objection I would like to know your telephone number. You are sure doing a
bang up job of keeping all of us in the Association aware of who we are,
where we were, and where we are going. Words cannot express  my sincerest
thanks and appreciation for your dedicated work.
                                                                   Bill
Pencak
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More things that they said in 1959. Sent in by Tom McAvoy

> > (21) "I'll tell you one thing. If my kid ever talks back to me, they
> > won't be able to sit down for a week."
> >
> > (22) "Did you know the new church in town is allowing women to wear
> > slacks to their service?"
> >
> > (23) "Next thing you know is, the government will start paying us not to
> > grow crops."
> >
> > (24) "I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a
> > whole lot of foreign business."
> >
> > (25) "Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government
> > takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing
> > the best people to congress."
> >
> > (26) "Why in the world would you want to send your daughter to college?
> > Isn't she going to get married? It would be different if she could be a
> > doctor or a lawyer."
> >
> > (27) "I just hate to see the young people smoking. As I tell my kids,
> > 'Don't take a cigarette from ANYONE. You never know what might be in
> > it."
> >
> > (28) "The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I
> > seriously doubt they will ever catch on."
> >
> > (29) "There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend.
> > It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel."
> >
> > (30) "No one can afford to be sick any more, $35 a day in the hospital
> > is too rich for my blood."
> >
> > (31) "If a few idiots want to risk their necks flying across the country
> > that's fine, but nothing will ever replace trains."
> >
> > (32) "I don't know about you but if they raise the price of coffee to 15
> > cents, I'll just have to drink mine at home."
> >
> > (33) "If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it. I'll
> > have my wife learn to cut hair."
> >
> > (34) "We won't be going out much any more. Our baby sitter informed us
> > she wants 50 cents an hour. Kids think money grows on trees."
> >
> > (35) "Cars which dim their lights by sensors, automatic transmissions,
> > and who knows what else? Pretty soon they will drive themselves.
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Subj: VEGAS
Date: 4/6/2001 12:05:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: SARGE31121
To: Ben517

      SAY BEN I THINK OLD McAVOY HAS A GREAT IDEAL ABOUT MAKING VEGAS OUR
FUTURE PLACE FOR REUNIONS.  GREAT TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM. PLENTY PLACES
TO VISIT AND THINGS TO DO.  SAY HELLO TO OLD TOM FOR ME.  I MUST HAVE MISSED
HIM WHEN HE WAS HERE FOR JOHN R. DAVIS TAPS.  I WAS NORTH AT THE TIME AND OLD
ED FRANTEL CALLED ME.     SARGE.....HOLZWORTH
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Subj: 517 combat team
Date: 4/6/2001 10:51:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From:    gdp@oregontrail.net (Gary Poole)
To:    Ben517@aol.com

Hi Ben:
  I was in the 460th in HQ. Battery, Survey and instrument section.
Louetta J. Darden just informed me about your web site.
Please add my e-mail address to your list.
Thank you,
Gary Poole
70296 Jim Town Road
Wallowa, Oregon 97885
541-886-8195
gdp@oregontrail.net
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Subj: Re: 517 combat team
Date: 4/6/2001 2:48:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:    gdp@oregontrail.net (Gary Poole)
To:    Ben517@aol.com

Ben517@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hi Gary,
> Glad you found us. Hope you enjoy the website and "Mail Calls."
> Will forward you a couple past "Mail Calls."
> Ben

Thank you, Ben. I was not with the 460th for Christmas of 1944 so am
not on that list in the book. I was in a station hospital in Rome for
Christmas of 94 and when I got out the doctors wanted me where I could
be "observed" so I was attached to an ammunition renovation company. We
reconditioned artillery ammo using Italian labor - mostly former
soldiers from the Italian army. Using your former enemies to handle
explosives can also "be hazardous to your health", but, I always felt
like a "drop out" for not being able to "go all the way" with my unit. I
made a lot of friends in that ammo company but never felt the same about
them as I did about those I went through basic, jump school, and the
first exposure to combat with.
Thank you for your efforts to keep everyone in touch.
Regards,
Gary

Gary come to the Bismarck reunion and meet your old friends.
Ben
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Subj: Re: Roster
Date: 4/6/2001 4:49:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: GEMA9 79
To: Ben517

Hi Ben and Fran
You got me right on the roster. Of course remember I just hang around to see
what's happening. If it gets to be to much you can delete me but I will cry
because I like to read the Mail Call.
Love to all
Florence Mehegan

Florence is a good friend of the 517th.Will never make her cry.
Ben
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Carlos
Davis is responsible for the following.
 The European Commission has just announced an agreement

> whereby English will be the official language of the EU
> rather than German which was the other possibility. As part
> of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that
> English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted
> a 5 year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".
>
> In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly,
> this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c"
> will be dropped in favour of the"k". This should klear up
> konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.
>
> There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year,
> when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This
> will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.
>
> In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be
> ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes
> are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double
> letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.
> Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in
> the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.
>
> By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as
> replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year,
> ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and
> similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of
> leters.
>
> After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer
> vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi
> to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen
> ve vil tak over ze world!
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Subj: Roster
Date: 4/6/2001 7:01:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:    ljdarden@mmind.net (Louetta J. Darden)
To:    Ben517@aol.com (Ben517@aol.com)

Ben, Evidently you have our e-mail right because we are getting the Mail
Call.  But you have the address for us all in caps, I thought they
needed to be in lower case.  If it is working with caps that is OK with
us.  Thanks, See you in Bismarck.  Lou

Upper or lower case should not make any difference. I should make them all the
same but I know if I try to do that, I'll make more typing mistakes.
Ben