On 6 Sep 2018 15:25:45 -0700, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
wrote:
>In article <9253pd919ls1nangl63habd674rr2dsbca@4ax.com>, Stormin' Norman says...
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>>On 6 Sep 2018 13:42:37 -0700, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
>>wrote:
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>>>In article <zPekD.14546$SN2.10632@fx38.iad>, Stormin' Norman says...
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>>>Definitely makes for a nice little weekend project...pull it out of the
>>>muck...scrape off some mud...stick on some tinfoil to cover all the rough
>>>exposed parts using a little Elmer's...then brag about buying it as government
>>>surplus.
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>>>...frankly...not that big of a deal!
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>>Here is the story on the aircraft and two more images. The picture
>>with all the Guadalcanal locals is showing them in the process of
>>recovering the remains of the pilot.
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>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.
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>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.
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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.
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