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The 509th PIA Reunion for 2006 will be in Dayton, Ohio, April 26th-30th. The Reunion hotel is the Holiday Inn North, which is the Holidome with an indoor pool, whirlpool, exercise room and video game room. Room cost is $75.00 per night. More details as they become available.
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Mr. Simpson, just wanted to write and tell you that the unit is trying to send a some active duty Soldiers up to the reunion. CSM Beal has left for Hood and CSM Sharkey, previously in 173rd, has taken over. They are now kicking around the idea of sending about 8 Soldiers per Company/Troop to the reunion as a potential reenlistment "reward"....... and all this time I thought reenlisting was its' own reward..... I hope to be up for the reunion. When and if they put out more information about sending some Geronimos up there, I will pass it along to you. Take care.
War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patrioic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man 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 so and kept so by the exertions of men better than himself. - John Stuart Mill 
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I saw you talking about something at Polk next year 509Trooper so I thought maybe the reunion was there next year, looks like I was wrong, guess I'm going to have joing the 509th Association just to keep abreast of the latest developements in the world of the 509th.  "ALL THE WAY" 
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| Scott, thanks for the info. I talked to CSM Sharkey on Thursday and he did mention that things are being worked out for a jump into Dayton. I hope to see you there. Blackflagg, I can e-mail you an application in Word format. Send me a PM.
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Okay, for all of you 509 vets out there I have more info available. As previously stated the room cost is $75.00 per night. The registration cost will be $70.00 per person. There is to be a bus trip on Friday to Wright-Patterson AFB and a tour of the Museum there. Anyone interested PM or e-mail me and I will send you the registration form.
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There have been a few other 509 vets sign on since I last posted information here so I wanted to bump it back up.
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"History teaches that when you become indifferent and lose the will to fight someone who has the will to fight will take over." COLONEL BULL SIMONS
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| To the 509th PIA Officers, Ms Peggy Cullins, and all that helped sponsor the reunion in Dayton, thanks for a great job! We throughly enjoyed meeting the WWII Vets, seeing buddies from those Mainz "Animal Farm" days and the guys from Vicenza. The current active duty 09ers from Ft Polk were just great troopers! ATW-=mike=- Soldiers drop in on veterans' gathering Parachute team from Army's 509th Infantry honors WWII vets from same unit, who were gathered there for a reunion. By Timothy Gaffney Staff Writer  WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The Army invaded Wright-Patterson on Friday morning with a 50-man parachute jump from a pair of World War II-era airplanes. Olive-drab parachutes blossomed against a brilliant blue sky as soldiers from the First Battalion, 509th Infantry jumped from the side doors of a restored 61-year-old Douglas C-47 transport plane and a DC-3, a civilian sister ship. Each plane made three passes to deploy the paratroopers 1,000 feet above the base's airfield, while battalion veterans and family members watched. "Look how easy they're coming down. Man, I'd have given a million dollars to come down that easy," marveled John "Dynamite" Kesseler of Roanoke, Va., as the soldiers, strung across the sky, drifted to the ground. Kesseler, whose nickname reflects his World War II work with explosives, was among about 175 unit veterans and family members gathered for a reunion at the laceName>HopelaceName> laceName>HotellaceName> and laceName>ConferencelaceName> laceType>CenterlaceType> at Wright-Patterson. The parachute jump was a training session and a salute to the older veterans, who fought in some of World War II's toughest European battles. "We're doing this to show appreciation to the original 509th soldiers," said Staff Sgt. Charles Stevens of Beaumont, Texas. The unit was first organized as the 504th Parachute Battalion in 1941. The designation changed several times during the war, and it is now known as the 1st-509th, based at Fort Polk, La. Friday's jump was Stevens' seventh, and his first from a C-47 — as it was for all of the active-duty troops, he said. He admitted feeling some nervousness before a jump but added, "Once you're out the door, it's an adrenaline rush."
"American Parachutists...devils in baggy pants...are less than 100 meters from my outpost line. I can't sleep at night; they pop up from nowhere and we never know when or how they will strike next. Seems like the black-hearted devils are everywhere..."
(An entry in a German officer's diary found after the Battle of Anzio)
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