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Offline Tarstar

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Re: Last Doolittle's Raiders Pilot dies
« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2011, 11:41:54 PM »
Quote from: Penguin on January 14, 2011, 09:44:10 PM
If not claimed by suicide or drinking, age takes all veterans.  :salute

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Double  :huh :huh

Gotta be one of the most tasteless comments I've ever read..
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Offline stealth

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Re: Last Doolittle's Raiders Pilot dies
« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2011, 11:44:56 PM »
I second that motion Tarstar. Soldiers died for what they believed in, don't dishonor it.
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Re: Last Doolittle's Raiders Pilot dies
« Reply #17 on: January 15, 2011, 12:12:33 AM »
Quote from: Kermit de frog on January 14, 2011, 05:43:52 PM
"Five Raider crew members, including two co-pilots, survive him, but Bill was the last living pilot."

The opportunity to participate with surviving raiders in their 69th anniversary reunion will be during
April 14-17, 2011 in Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska.

I'm sure your fellow Doolittle Raiders will toast to you as they always do to fallen fellow raiders at every reunion.

 :salute Col Bower

Kermit, could you post more information on this. I think I am going to make a maximum effort to attend, if I can. At this rate there may only be one or two more and then they are all gone.

Thanks in advance!

Warmest,
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Re: Last Doolittle's Raiders Pilot dies
« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2011, 10:46:45 AM »
Another silver cup is carefully placed upside down in the case, never again to be taken out. Another pilot makes his last final approach, for a perfect landing. And another generation slips into history, soon to live only in the books and films, and the hearts and minds of those who remember with reverence.


 :salute
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Re: Last Doolittle's Raiders Pilot dies
« Reply #19 on: January 15, 2011, 10:59:53 AM »
Well said, CVH.    :salute
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Re: Last Doolittle's Raiders Pilot dies
« Reply #20 on: January 15, 2011, 11:24:27 AM »
R.I.P  :cry :salute :angel: :pray
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Re: Last Doolittle's Raiders Pilot dies
« Reply #21 on: January 15, 2011, 12:23:37 PM »
Quote from: Captain Virgil Hilts on January 15, 2011, 10:46:45 AM
Another silver cup is carefully placed upside down in the case, never again to be taken out. Another pilot makes his last final approach, for a perfect landing. And another generation slips into history, soon to live only in the books and films, and the hearts and minds of those who remember with reverence.


 :salute

Couldn't have been said better.
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Re: Last Doolittle's Raiders Pilot dies
« Reply #22 on: January 15, 2011, 07:04:49 PM »
Quote from: Tarstar on January 14, 2011, 11:41:54 PM
Double  :huh :huh

Gotta be one of the most tasteless comments I've ever read..

Don't quite get it, I was saying that not only did few men survive the war, many that did took their own lives.  This makes veterans even rarer than they ought to be; they are walking, talking textbooks- truly priceless gems of history.

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Offline Tarstar

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Re: Last Doolittle's Raiders Pilot dies
« Reply #23 on: January 15, 2011, 09:19:10 PM »
Quote from: Penguin on January 15, 2011, 07:04:49 PM
Don't quite get it, I was saying that not only did few men survive the war, many that did took their own lives.  This makes veterans even rarer than they ought to be; they are walking, talking textbooks- truly priceless gems of history.

-Penguin

I thought you made us out to be a bunch of suicidal drunks.
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Offline Dadsguns

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Re: Last Doolittle's Raiders Pilot dies
« Reply #24 on: January 15, 2011, 09:22:02 PM »
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Re: Last Doolittle's Raiders Pilot dies
« Reply #25 on: January 15, 2011, 11:16:57 PM »
Fair skies and tailwinds always.  :salute
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Re: Last Doolittle's Raiders Pilot dies
« Reply #26 on: January 16, 2011, 11:26:50 AM »
Quote from: Tarstar on January 15, 2011, 09:19:10 PM
I thought you made us out to be a bunch of suicidal drunks.

Why would I think that?  :noid

 :lol :salute
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Re: Last Doolittle's Raiders Pilot dies
« Reply #27 on: January 16, 2011, 11:39:27 AM »
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