On 6 Sep 2018 15:25:45 -0700, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
wrote:
>
>What's disappointing is that it took all this time for someone to finally be
>able to retrieve the pilot remains after all these decades...makes one wonder
>how many other similar situations like this are out there...and whether DOD
>still has them in their computer systems as a reminder.
>
>At age 17 (his picture in Marine uniform makes him look no older than 15), my
>uncle, lying about his age, joined the Marines after Pearl Harbor...wounded
>within a week after landing on Guadalcanal! VA still looked after him when his
>wounds occasionally gave him problems...even after he turned 80.
>
Not being religious or superstitious myself, if I were, I would think
of this as still flying patrol for my first 70 years of eternity, not
a bad way to start the final chapter.
--
"So much of our politics, our public life, our public discourse can seem small
and mean and petty, trafficking in bombast and insults and phony controversies
and manufactured outrage. It is a politics that pretends to be brave, and tough,
but in fact is born of fear. John called on us to be bigger and better than
that."
Barack Obama - Eulogy for John McCain - 2018
|
|
 (1/2)')){kind=link}