Tried three times to reply to your comment about the P-38 pilot and my
posts just vanished..... so, here is a new thread with your comment
and my reply below.
>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.
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- Gen, John F. Kelly (4 star, USMC, Ret.)
White House Chief of Staff speaking about President Trump
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