From: Ben517
Sent: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 7:45:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Subject: MAIL CALL NO. 874 517TH PRCT--MARCH 29,2005

Hello,
 
Palm Springs reunion--April 10. You have to register soon.
 
Ben
 
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Latest information on reunions. NEW
Annual West Coast Party 2005
April 10-16, 2005
Palm Spring, CA
More info soon
2005 Biannual Reunion
August 15-19, 2005
Savannah, GA
Registration due before July 10, 2005!
Howard Hensleigh
 
Merle, Lud, Gene and Bob:
Thanks Merle for getting in touch with our Belgian friends. Glad two will be coming. We will take the recommendations of you, Lud and Gene on who to invite and how to use the funds our members are donating. I will be glad to send out an official invitation when all is settled, if you think that best.
From the internet activity we have a little over $2,000. There will be some late givers and we should get more when the Thunderbolt comes out.
You know all of these friends of the 517 from your trips to the battlefields. They are keeping alive the memory of the liberation we pulled off, and will do so after we are gone. There are several suggestions in Mail Call, including a lengthy one from Dick Seitz. Please take all of them into consideration, but you are in charge of who to invite and how the funds are to be used. I will follow your recommendations, because you are best fitted to make them. You may wish to confer, but one way or the other get the job done.
Howard Hensleigh                                          *************
I would like to suggest that we contact Eddy Monfort, our friend from Manhay.--Ben
Eddy MONFORT
15, Rue de la Gotte
B-6960 MANHAY
BELGIUM
Email: e.monfort@belgacom.net
Boom Boom Alicki
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http://www.andiesisle.com/viadolorosa.html
Claire Giblin
Hi, Ben -
 
Everyone else is impressed with your clean desk.  I say it's something to be scared of, myself.  Don't they say that it's a sign of a sick mind?  But that's me.  Rest assured, we don't have that problem at our house. 
Hope everyone had a nice Easter holiday. 
 
Claire Giblin
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Jim Royer
Boy, O Boy, Ben has fooled everyone, including you, Jesse. He cleaned
off that desk before the picture was taken.  My large two-sided
desk(4'x5') desk is never clean. June has strict orders, "DO NOT TOUCH!"
One side is for business. The other side is personal stuff.
Great job, Ben.
                                           Jim Royer
John Alicki

Ben, I'm sending by U.S. Mail some photos and material that Jesses K. Davis, 517th Demo Platoon recently sent to me of his visit to Le Muy, France.
     
   Photos also include other 517th members who attended.
John Alicki
The excellent photo of Cowboy Tom Cross and his horse reminds me of my 1936 experience in the U.S. Cavalry training to learn to properly handle and ride a horse.  After long and grueling equitation with blisters on both side of my butt, I finally succeeded to be called the original cowboy from Brooklyn. Ha!
Entry of Mar 28, 2005 at 12:12 [EST]
Name: Scott Hoiser
 
Unit:
EMail: HosierWarRoom@hotmail.com
How I found the 517th page: From a search engine
Comments: I am trying to find information about Ray "Pop" Boyce and William (Bill) Frieze of HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 517th PIR. I am a high school history teacher that has found a scrapbook of Ray's that contains WWII pictures, etc. I would like to find more about these men, so I can preserve their memory. Thanks Scott Hosier
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From "Paratroopers' Odyssey".  Can anyone give Scott more information?-Ben
 
A team comprised of Bill Frieze, Barney Gossen and Ray "Pop" Boyce, all of Headquarters Second Battalion, earned a reputation as "jeep liberators first class." They often went to Rome via provided truck, but seldom came home without another jeep. On one such excursion they were pursued by an MP jeep. Frieze, riding in back, recalls the MPs got nasty and started shooting at their vehicle. He noticed a knapsack filled with smoke grenades, promptly began to toss them out at intervals, and elude the "posse."
Scott Hoiser
Ben,

Wow!  Thanks a lot.  I hope it will be OK to contact him.

Are you apart of the website?  I have a bunch of pictures I would like to
scan and include, if they would be wanted.

Thanks again,

Scott H.
Boom Boom Alicki
The recent photo of you at your desk reflecting an efficient and orderly operation reminds me this quotation: "He who has no taste of order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his action."..-- Lavaten

It's no wonder why we have such an efficient website operation. Many thanks to you and Bob.
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Boom Boom has givin me my reply to those who may think that I would even consider cleaning up my desk for the photo.-Ben