In article <bbi3pdtj672pfee57uikllq0ae3pq668n7@4ax.com>, Stormin' Norman says...
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>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.
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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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They've all showed on Newsguy...was wondering why you posted the same reply
three times...makes sense now. Newsguy isn't that great but it's cheap...I
normally post 20-25 images a day in this group...some days NONE of them show on
Newsguy!!
Tomorrow mornings post has 26 Vickers VC10 images...here's hoping all show up.
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