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Offline SilverZ06

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Re: Old Soldiers just fade away.....
« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2012, 10:19:50 PM »
Holy Cow!!  106 years old???? Send me what you're drinkin!!!

SALUTE!!!!!!!!!  :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute

I think he meant 1996. 1966 is a typo.

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Re: Old Soldiers just fade away.....
« Reply #16 on: December 13, 2012, 11:05:42 PM »
I find the use of "over and out" odd.
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Re: Old Soldiers just fade away.....
« Reply #17 on: December 13, 2012, 11:16:17 PM »
I find the use of "over and out" odd.

Sounds sad, yet somehow proud, actually. :salute


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Re: Old Soldiers just fade away.....
« Reply #18 on: December 14, 2012, 12:07:13 AM »
hey Majors, dont leave sir. us younger types sure like learning what we can from you guys. ET37 comes to mind. he was a real b29/b17 pilot. when we do missions with him, he has comms, and everything he says is authentic lingo and terms that they really did use. for me, i can hear the need in his voice to give us that experience as best as he can. i listen intently, bc im afraid ill miss out on a piece of authentic history. i want you old codgers here, for me its gratifying and almost fatherly when ET says " that a boy, go get em!" when we see a bad guy in on the bombers. you want to fight for him. i swell with pride every dam time. it makes me feel good for him to see us giving the red guys hell. hes the kind of leader that folks cant help but follow, bc hes that dam good and magnetic. i would bet that just based on your experience in life, you have that same effect on the guys who surely look up to you. i really hate to see our heroes leave the game. bc all the knowledge you have. not just in game, but the branches of thinking that spring up after flying with you guys. it offers real life experience to draw from. for me, as soon as i heard ET was a real bomber pilot, i started daydreaming about what he mustve been thinking on bomb runs, how it mustve been to fly one of those big dam planes, so on and so on. it opened up a whole new world of thinking and his time became even more real to me. thats worth the 15 a month by itself imo. sure hate to see you go.
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Re: Old Soldiers just fade away.....
« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2012, 01:12:16 AM »
hey Majors, dont leave sir. us younger types sure like learning what we can from you guys. ET37 comes to mind. he was a real b29/b17 pilot. when we do missions with him, he has comms, and everything he says is authentic lingo and terms that they really did use. for me, i can hear the need in his voice to give us that experience as best as he can. i listen intently, bc im afraid ill miss out on a piece of authentic history. i want you old codgers here, for me its gratifying and almost fatherly when ET says " that a boy, go get em!" when we see a bad guy in on the bombers. you want to fight for him. i swell with pride every dam time. it makes me feel good for him to see us giving the red guys hell. hes the kind of leader that folks cant help but follow, bc hes that dam good and magnetic. i would bet that just based on your experience in life, you have that same effect on the guys who surely look up to you. i really hate to see our heroes leave the game. bc all the knowledge you have. not just in game, but the branches of thinking that spring up after flying with you guys. it offers real life experience to draw from. for me, as soon as i heard ET was a real bomber pilot, i started daydreaming about what he mustve been thinking on bomb runs, how it mustve been to fly one of those big dam planes, so on and so on. it opened up a whole new world of thinking and his time became even more real to me. thats worth the 15 a month by itself imo. sure hate to see you go.
all my best to you,
AlBundy(ingame)


Well said Vuduu!  :salute

Flew with ET couple missions fun stuff quite the leader.
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Re: Old Soldiers just fade away.....
« Reply #20 on: December 14, 2012, 01:17:08 AM »
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Re: Old Soldiers just fade away.....
« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2012, 11:25:53 AM »
wondering why he is leaving?  anyone know?
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Re: Old Soldiers just fade away.....
« Reply #22 on: December 14, 2012, 11:31:15 AM »
wondering why he is leaving?  anyone know?

166 posts in 12 years.  I suspect this was an important last post. :frown:

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Re: Old Soldiers just fade away.....
« Reply #23 on: December 14, 2012, 12:42:37 PM »
 :huh :pray :pray :old: :old: Good luck Sir  :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute :salute
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Re: Old Soldiers just fade away.....
« Reply #24 on: December 14, 2012, 01:23:15 PM »
wondering why he is leaving?  anyone know?

Probably got tired of Midway's drivel on 200.

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Re: Old Soldiers just fade away.....
« Reply #25 on: December 14, 2012, 01:48:21 PM »
Probably got tired of Midway's drivel on 200.

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Re: Old Soldiers just fade away.....
« Reply #26 on: December 14, 2012, 02:02:40 PM »
We can't keep old timers around just because we want them to; that is selfish.

When things get on a bit, you will learn as well; that the ancient stories of the older ones putting themselves out of "society" so they can quietly dissapear from the eyes of others, is a rite of passage for those with the stoutest of hearts and minds.

Being mature is about letting go of things, life and nicities are something you eventually have to let go of as well, even if it makes others around you sad.

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Re: Old Soldiers just fade away.....
« Reply #27 on: December 14, 2012, 07:21:23 PM »
We can't keep old timers around just because we want them to; that is selfish.

When things get on a bit, you will learn as well; that the ancient stories of the older ones putting themselves out of "society" so they can quietly dissapear from the eyes of others, is a rite of passage for those with the stoutest of hearts and minds.

Being mature is about letting go of things, life and nicities are something you eventually have to let go of as well, even if it makes others around you sad.
i wasnt trying to be selfish. i was trying to be nice and say what i felt. that rite of passage was bc in those days the older folks considered themselves a burden on the futures of the people in their prime. its not like that today. i know these things.

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« Reply #28 on: December 14, 2012, 07:49:56 PM »
Very well said VuDuvee.
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Re: Old Soldiers just fade away.....
« Reply #29 on: December 14, 2012, 10:47:26 PM »
Reading through Majors' previous posts, he really wanted that Beaufighter.   :airplane:

Hope it comes one day and you get to fly it, Majors. :)

If it does show up one day, you'll be the first person I think of when I fly it. :salute


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