Re: Hueys, pt 2 - Bell UH1 32.jpg (1/1) |
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Mitchell Holman (noemail@verizont.net) |
2019/02/07 06:29 |
Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in
news:N5Cdnfbs9Jf5O8bBnZ2dnUU78Y_NnZ2d@giganews.com:
> Mitchell Holman <noemail@verizont.net> wrote:
>> Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in news:atmdnbB-
>> t4YVbsfBnZ2dnUU78UHNnZ2d@giganews.com:
>>
>>> Mitchell Holman <noemail@verizont.net> wrote:
>>>> Mitchell Holman <noemail@verizont.net> wrote in
>>>> news:XnsA9EE4DF15885noemailattnet@216.166.97.131:
>>>>
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>>>> In his book about the war Huey pilot
>>>> Robert Mason tells about how they used to
>>>> set their choppers down in a riverbank and
>>>> use buckets to wash out all the blood and
>>>> body bits.
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>>> Yup! Robert Mason's "Chickenhawk"
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>> Good guy, sadly "damaged" by the
>> war as were so many vets. Divorce,
>> jobless, arrested for smuggling drugs
>> at the Mexico border. Don't even know
>> if he is still alive.
>>
> Yup! After 2 years in a Federal Pen he seems to still be alive. Now
> 77. He wrote a follow up "Chickenhawk: Back in the World" and at least
> two novels.
The mandatory "Sentencing Guidelines" in federal
court are a travesty. I have seen judges quit the
bench rather than impose sentences that are clearly
unjust but now required by statute.
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