352 entries.
wrote on November 17, 2020 at 1:10 pm:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY REDLEGS! On Nov.17, 1775 the US Continental congress formed an artillery unit in the US Militia (Army) HAPPY 225th Birthday!
wrote on October 28, 2020 at 6:40 am:
Ref. Bill Beers- I received this last night from Bill. "JUST HEARD FROM MY NEPHEW SHAWN, THAT MY BROTHER REX IS IN THE HOSPITAL, BLOOD SUGAR, 1400 AND HE HAS KETOACIDOSIS.. SHAWN SAID HE WOULD KEEP ME UPDATED ON HIS CONDITION." Please keep Bill's brother in your prayers. Remember cards, calls, emails, and prayers go a long way!
wrote on October 25, 2020 at 4:36 pm:
REF: Wallace Bates- Wallace and I finally got to touch base with each other today. Wallace had back surgery, which included a fusion of L-3 & L-4, last December. He's told me it's been a painful healing process. He said that Trudy was doing fine. I'd also like to wish Wallace a Happy 78th Birthday this week. Please keep Wallace and his family in your prayers for a rapid and safe healing. Remember cards, calls, emails , and prayers go a long way!
wrote on September 28, 2020 at 1:04 pm:
August 15th, 1978, 2/17 FA, Camp Pelham South Korea:
Seeking anyone who was assigned to the 2/17 and has FIRST hand knowledge of a raft race that took place on the Imjin River which took the lives of SP/4 Fred Carroll and a South Korean soldier.
Please contact me if you have ANY information about this horrible tragedy from so long ago.
Thanks.
Allan Harrelson allansc2005@yahoo.com
wrote on September 21, 2020 at 6:53 pm:
Ref. Bill Beers: I spoke with Bill (Conway) over the weekend. He's having some back issues and just had a ct scan done. He's awaiting the Dr.'s diagnosis and decision as to what will happen. Please keep him in your prayers as well. Remember cards, calls, emails, and prayers go a long way!
wrote on September 21, 2020 at 6:49 pm:
Ref.: Gene Johnson: I spoke with Gene today. He said his son-in-law is out of the hospital now for about 2 months having had Covid- 19. He has made a good recovery! Gene is still on dialysis and found out recently that he has congestive heart failure. On a better note, Wed. Sept 23, he celebrates another birthday! Please continue to keep Gene and his family in your thoughts and prayers. Remember cards, calls, emails, and prayers go a long way!
wrote on September 2, 2020 at 11:14 am:
Ref. Cathy Smith- Please keep my wife in your prayers for her surgery. She has torn the meniscus on both sides of her right knee. This will be an outpatient procedure but a little healing time and therapy. Thanks. Remember cards, calls, emails, prayers go a long way!
wrote on August 14, 2020 at 12:20 pm:
To Lonnie Mollett. Glad to hear that your grandfather served with the 17th Field Artillery Regiment. The association is always looking for photographs or newspaper articles about the regiment during anytime period for our history files. If you have any from your grandfather's time, when he served with the regiment and you are willing to share . Please contact me at Kurtz_t@comcast.net
wrote on August 13, 2020 at 3:09 pm:
My grandfather, MSG Lonnie L. Cumbee served with the 17th Field artillery regiment at Camp Bragg, NC in 1922. During his 26 years in the Army he served with the 17th about three different times. I think in 1941 he departed the 17th for the last time just before the out break of WWII. In WWII he served with 311th field arty Battalion, 79th Infantry Division. I have a 17th Field artillery regiment year book dated 1941. My grandfather was proud of his time with the 17th Field artillery.
wrote on July 20, 2020 at 1:27 pm:
REF. DOUG RUNICE: I received a thank you note today from Doug's wife for our card and donation to his church. It reads as follows. "Thank you for the donation for Doug's memorial. The 17th Artillery has been such a huge part of Doug's life for the past many years. His service to his country was something he was proud of. The military service was humbling. We were so blessed to get to know you all. you were his "Brother in Arms." Love, Lynne." Remember cards, calls, emails, and prayers go a long way!
wrote on July 8, 2020 at 6:04 pm:
REF: Doug Runice: Doug's service will be held tomorrow. His wife has asked in lieu of flowers, please make a donation in his memory to a church where he found his salvation at. The church's' name and address is:
THE ROCK
721 FAYETTE AVE.
MELLEN, WI 54546
Please make the checks out to THE ROCK CHURCH.
Please continue to keep Doug's family and his wife Lynne in your thoughts and prayers. Remember cards, calls, emails, and prayers go a long way in troubled times!
Any further questions can be directed to my email. (NO PRIVATE ADDRESES ARE PUBLISHED BY ME ON THIS PUBLIC WEBSITE.)
wrote on July 4, 2020 at 11:22 am:
REf. DOUG RUNICE: It is with sadness I have to pass along this news about Doug obtained from Steve Gerhart. Same occurred this past Tuesday. ""This morning Doug Runice had a heart attack. He passed on the way to the hospital. Doug had no history of heart problems. No word about services yet. " I will post service info as soon as I receive it. His address is in the roster. Remember cards, calls, emails and prayers go a long way troubled times.
wrote on June 30, 2020 at 12:55 pm:
IT SADDENS ME TO REPORT THAT ANNIE HUNT, MOTHER OF OUR CHAPLAIN RICHARDS' WIFE CATHY, WENT INTO HIS HEAVENLY FLOCK. PLEASE REMEMBER THIS FAMILY IN YOUR PRAYERS. CARDS AND EMAILS AND PHONE CALLS HELP WITH A BAD SITUATION
wrote on June 29, 2020 at 8:23 pm:
YESTERDAY WAS A SOMBER DAY FOR ME, WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAD OUR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY WITHOUT CUMA, WE WOULD HAVE BEEN MARRIED 51YEARS ON 6/28/20 , I CAN SAY HOWEVER THAT SHE MADE ME HAPPY FOR 50 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AND 12DAYS, SHE ALWAYS LOOKED FORWARD TO OUR MILITARY REUNIONS, AND ENJOYED THE PHONE CALLS SHE RECEIVED FROM OUR ADOPTED DAUGHTER CATHY, RICHARD, GIL, AND NORM, TO MENTION A FEW, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE REGT. FOR THE KIND CARDS BEFORE AND AFTER HER DEATH, ,, THANK YOU MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN ARMS, ROUNDS OUT, ROUNDS OUT.
THANK YOU, BILL BEERS
wrote on June 15, 2020 at 4:37 pm:
In recent weeks the 17th ARA Board of Officers discussed the perils of COVID-19 and how to safely hold a September 2020 reunion. After much discussion, we voted unanimously to postpone the 2020 reunion until next September 2021.
There are just too many COVID-19 factors working against us.
Age: the loyal members who would attend are well into the susceptible age. Most of us are just not young anymore!
Medical issues: most, if not all, of us have some serious medical issue(s) that would make us a target for COVID-19.
Travel: travel to Gettysburg through virus infected areas would be a real challenge and our members would not enjoy traveling and being VERY CONCERNED while traveling.
Logistics: Try having a good time in Gettysburg – while wearing a mask, trying to socialize with our friends – w/o a handshake, no hugs, having a conversation while six feet apart; eating spaced out – and occasionally stopping to go wash your hands and sing a song for 20 seconds.
With all those factors in mind and no safe solution on the horizon – we decided to play it safe and postpone the 2020 reunion.
wrote on May 27, 2020 at 11:19 am:
A STORY TO TELL; With Bill's (Dahlin) permission I thought this worthy on this page.
THE VIETNAM ARTILLERY MAN 1967-1968
C Battery, 2nd Battalion, 17th Artillery Regiment, 1st Air Calvary Division
by Bill Dahlin, 4/23/2019
The sudden flashes, the long streaks of burning powder from the ends of stainless steel tubes.
The roar of the battery guns sending hot metal rounds of death out arching through the night.
From dusk till dawn with strong coffee in our veins loading shell after shell after shell
with time, quick, delay or concrete piercing pointed fuses screwed into the giant bullet noses.
The ghost appearing of silhouettes of sweating, helmeted, shirtless men laboring in the dark.
The frighten and the strong standing together without questioning the seemingly endless task
of coordinating blankets of exploding shrapnel on other men we could not see and never know.
A time of rest, of a letter, of a meal, or warm, rubber tasting water from a huge black bladder.
A brief shower with soap under from a canvas pail or a face wash and shave from helmet basin,
A trip to the two *holer - halved 55 gallon barrels with diesel fuel under screened wooden planks. (*out house)
Then bore sighting the guns through the rear primer hole and cross of strings at the tube front
on a sighting board at some distance and then setting the deflection sight on gun’s left side.
Then taking commands from the battery’s aiming circle to line all guns on north and re-setting
each gun's two aiming stakes with green and red night flash lights for night indirect fire sighting.
Filling sand bags, setting barbed wire, improving gun firing pits and bunker living conditions.
A tin of Premium Saltine Crackers with peanut butter or pressure can cheese or popcorn from
an expanding aluminum foil bag heated under over a one man, small gasoline stove, a cigarette --
Then FIRE MISSION! Or INCOMING MORTAR ROUNDS. Get that 105mm pumping rounds out there! FIRE! MEN! FIRE!
The five men below were awarded metals for V.C. action against the battery on 4/2/1968. Not shown but memorialized by their fellow veterans and by purple hearts are 11 men KIA including a 1/Lt and 23 wounded including the battery commandeer a Captain.
The pictures didn't show up here but the story itself I felt very worthy for a Memorial Day. Richard-Chaplain
wrote on May 9, 2020 at 11:35 am:
Ref: GENE JOHNSON : I spoke with Gene this morning. He's still on dialysis 3 times weekly other than that he sends his regards to all. He asks for prayers for his son-in-law, James Ness, who has been in the hospital 33 days with COVID 19. Remember cards, calls, emails and prayers go a long way!
wrote on April 29, 2020 at 8:41 am:
Ref. Bill Dahlin; Bill sent me a message yesterday but it didn't show up until this morning. ". I am doing well here at the hospital. Had three more stints places in my heart. I now have eight.
Going home tomorrow after the medical staff insures my groin incision for my heart catheter." He also sends thanks for all the prayers! Remember, cards, calls, emails and prayers go a long way!
wrote on April 16, 2020 at 11:30 am:
Ref: BILL DAHLIN: I talked with Bill yesterday about his condition. His reply was, "
Thank you for your correspondence. The heart doctor called Monday. My heart catherization is re-scheduled for April 28th, a Tuesday. My phrenologist (kidney doctor) reported yesterday that my creatine level has increased to 1.8. A value of 2.0 is Stage 4 kidney failure. At Stage 5, I'd be on dialysis. I am just happy to continue to be alive - in the Lord! But I will still be glad in the Lord. I will rejoice in God my Savior. Habakkuk 3:18 " Bill also filled a request for me of getting some pocket sized New Testament Bibles for some of the members. (Again Thanks Bill) Bill has done so much for this organization that I continue to ask that you please keep him in your prayers. Remember cards, calls, emails, and prayers go a long way!
wrote on April 9, 2020 at 2:39 pm:
REF. BILL DAHLIN : Bill was scheduled to have his heart procedure done this past Monday but was put off due to his possibility of having COVID-19 and a high white blood cell count. I waited to put this post to hear about his results. He just notified me that he is NEGATIVE! Can't say when the procedure will be done but can say "PRAYER WORKS!" Please continue to pray for him that all will go well. Remember, cards, calls, emails, and prayers go along way.