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March 12th, 2008, 06:55 PM
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#2 | | Lifer
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: pittsburgh ,pa.
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I agree with you...I wonder why they don`t talk about this on CNN or "The View" ?
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March 12th, 2008, 07:00 PM
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#3 | | Lifer
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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I think because they don't really have a clue. Our veterans do and we have a new generation of warriors to carry on as we old guys fade away. I have a picture of my mother at 18 years young in 1945 centered in a picture with 6 of her uncles all in the uniform of our our nation. Service and honor is a concept not lost by my family nor do a suspect many other citizans of our nation. 
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March 13th, 2008, 06:16 AM
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#4 | | Lifer
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Montgomery County TEXAS
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Welcome home men....God Bless
It's interesting how things change. Now days every effort is made to recover an air crew. I hate to say it, but in WWII there was such a volume of casualties recovery of US service personell will never be complete. Can you imagine how many sailors and aircrew, not to mention jungle KIA soldiers are still out there?
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March 13th, 2008, 09:52 AM
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#5 | | Lifer
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Bay Area California
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Outstanding story, thanks for posting it.
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March 14th, 2008, 05:10 AM
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#6 | | Platoon Sergeant
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Arlington, TX
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Yes very good read, thanks for the link.
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March 14th, 2008, 05:07 PM
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#7 | | Automatic Rifleman
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Orange, Texas
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You fellows are right. I recently (November) had the honor(with great sadness), to be a pall bearer for the man recognized as shooting down the first Japanese Zero in Air to Air combat, in WWII. He was a gunner on SBD and TBY's. About 10 years ago, they did a feature article n him in our hometown paper. But, his passing didn't get more than a obituary.
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March 15th, 2008, 04:06 AM
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#8 | | Viking Raider
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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Welcome home men. There is a foundation flying the kind of bomber these men were flying on tour across the country. They are in Texas now. Check out the Collings foundation.
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March 15th, 2008, 06:42 PM
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#9 | | Automatic Rifleman
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Orange, Texas
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The Confederate Air Force, out of Galveston, does the same thing. There is also a Military Air Craft museum , between Fort Worth and Cresun, TX.
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June 26th, 2011, 12:01 AM
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#10 | | Platoon Sergeant
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Florida
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If your interested in Air museums two that I highly recommend are Planes of Fame @ Chino, Ca. and the place that I had the good fortune to live across the street from. The National Museum of the U.S. Airforce. Dayton, Oh. 'fort.
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June 26th, 2011, 05:40 AM
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#11 | | Squad Leader
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New York
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Originally Posted by graystoke3  I agree with you...I wonder why they don`t talk about this on CNN or "The View" ? |
when you want to "change" history, it helps to NOT mention the past.
Most "kids" today don't know who the "Allies" were or "Axis powers"
Cuba, is "put up" as a model of the modern health care system.
Most Americans today do not know what Freedom truly is!!
Bob R
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June 26th, 2011, 08:38 AM
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#12 | | Platoon Sergeant
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Florida
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Ribbs55 and greystoke.
Goodmorning gents. I was just reading your posts here and wow that got the juices flowing. So I thought I'd toss my 2cents worth in here. The facts and the truth are VERY inconvenient to those who have grown up in this country. Enjoyed the freedom and liberty that it offers but, as they have sworn their allegiance, their feality not to the American flag oh no but, rather to their god Karl Marx. They wish only the worst as they engage in destroying the very notion of true freedom, liberty, and the ability for self determination that our founding fathers strove to preserve. No these blind morons, these idiots, buy into the intellectually and morally bankrupt lie thats embodied in Marxism. May his soul enjoy the pleasures of hades for all eternity. History is an "inconvenient truth" to those of this ilk afterall it impedes the establishment of the socialist utopia. An ignorant man being easier to subject or perhaps better put bend to the will of that faceless monolith called the state. Call me a raving lunatic, a conspiracy theorist if you will but, this I think can all be summed up in a statement made by a former Soviet Premier. I give you Nikita Khruschev who said "We will take America from within." You could make the argument that this is very nearly "a fait accompli!" We as real Americans had better awaken, standup and be counted, be willing to fight for what is right. The alternantive to that may well be the failure of this grand experiment in liberty. Well there is my 2 cents worth.
All the best
flyingfortress 
Last edited by flyingfortress; June 26th, 2011 at 08:42 AM.
Reason: Speling and grammatical errors
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June 26th, 2011, 10:57 PM
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#13 | | Lifer
Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Northern Ca
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Many people wear the pin or fly the flag for POW/KIA's. This is yet another example of the statement on the flag "You are not forgotten". Sadly, those who remember seem to getting fewer every year. The vet's, their family members and the families who have lost loved ones seem augmented by only a few steadfast patriots who help to carry the honor. Bless them all.
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July 17th, 2011, 11:21 AM
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#14 | | Automatic Rifleman
Join Date: Sep 2003
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Ref "how many are still out there?
Current figure around 75,000 from WW2.
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