Some true gentlemen and an epic event worth remebering.
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That then, I can respect. I'd not correctly remembered your stated situation in that era. My sincere apology for an ill conceived, rude and unwarranted insult sir.
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Quick, mark your calendars!
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Last story on tonight's newscast.
http://www.cbsnews.c...-for-last-time/
The lead story was about an NBA player coming out:
http://www.usatoday....thlete/2121127/
Borrowing the thoughts of BB on the WWII heros:
http://www.cbsnews.c...-for-last-time/
The lead story was about an NBA player coming out:
http://www.usatoday....thlete/2121127/
Borrowing the thoughts of BB on the WWII heros:
Whoa there Snap! What, in all all of human history, could possibly be more "important" that that!?....Well...I'd admittedly not considered who was currently competitive on Dancing With the Stars or American Idol....My bad!...I often lose sight of what's truly "important" in America. 🙂
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If that's his chosen lifestyle, fine but I don't think his coming out is headline news. We are down to 4 Doolittle heros. Three made it for their FINAL reunion. They should not be forgotten and buried in the news.
History does not sell, tabloid and celeb gossip does. Very telling of what's important to generation tattoo.
"They should not be forgotten.." Amen fellow American! Without such incredible men's deeds....well...we'd not even have so much as a country at all now!..As pathetic as things have recently gotten nonetheless.
Time takes us all into God's Hands..a final "Checkride" none of us can avoid, but note the true elegance and Class of those Aviators/Crew/Warriors/Gentlemen, who, by bombs and pure courage, showed the enemies of our then attacked, and seemingly "helpless" Nation, what was to be, from their and their fellow's hands. http://www.456fis.or...TLE_TONTINE.htm
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Thank you for starting the thread recognizing these heros. They reminded Japan they woke up a sleeping giant as Yamamoto feared after Pearl Harbor.
Nothing owed me there. I'd previously thought nothing of it...rather, far too simply, considering this to be a seemingly, universally agreed upon aviation area, but will never besmirch such fine people again by bringing theirs, or any other hero's memory to such a cross-threaded/spineless-wimp-infested-cesspool as THIS sorry place! No matter. They are worth remembering...Period...But there are far better venues to discuss such amazing feats on. I've sadly learned my lesson here. Such notions are not ever to be properly shared with uncomprehending, spineless scum. "Casting pearls before swine"/etc.
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If you get chance to travel around the Holidays, go to Belgium and visit the sites where the Battle of the Ardenne's was fought 69 years ago this December 16th.through January.
It is a sight to behold seeing EVERY business with a 4' x 6' US and Belgian Flag in the window as you drive into Bastogne. Note the tank in Macaullife Square, a fully restored and operational Sherman Tank.
Mingle with the locals and they will ask, "So did your father fight here?" Then they will tell you of their relatives and how "The Americans" came to save us. I met a retired Sargent who to this very day says in the same farmhouse he stayed in in 1944. Onlu now he says, "The grand daughter" keeps an eye on me. I met him as he was signing autographs in the square. YES, autographs as he told me "Hey I was just a Sgy tryig to keep 12 other guys from freezing to death.
Go into the local bar and watch what happens when the notice your American (that will take 2 seconds) You will have the time of your life listening to the stories and you'll spend no money and leave like you were rich if you get my drify
It is a sight to behold seeing EVERY business with a 4' x 6' US and Belgian Flag in the window as you drive into Bastogne. Note the tank in Macaullife Square, a fully restored and operational Sherman Tank.
Mingle with the locals and they will ask, "So did your father fight here?" Then they will tell you of their relatives and how "The Americans" came to save us. I met a retired Sargent who to this very day says in the same farmhouse he stayed in in 1944. Onlu now he says, "The grand daughter" keeps an eye on me. I met him as he was signing autographs in the square. YES, autographs as he told me "Hey I was just a Sgy tryig to keep 12 other guys from freezing to death.
Go into the local bar and watch what happens when the notice your American (that will take 2 seconds) You will have the time of your life listening to the stories and you'll spend no money and leave like you were rich if you get my drify
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I think you paint with a broad bush.
There are many of us here that have family that have served, have served and are like minded.
Maybe you should get a grip and not lump everyone in a neet little pile.
Doolittle's raid was great!
Balls to the wall!
But the 'every day soldier' on the ground took the ass whipping/giving.
JMHO,
B) xUT
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