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Title: Former War Enemies Reunite As Friends
Post by: Mus51 on July 16, 2010, 09:04:43 AM

Video here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hjx-DhKlg8&feature=channel)

Title: Re: Former War Enemies Reunite As Friends
Post by: Maverick on July 16, 2010, 10:32:35 AM

Quote from: Mus51 on July 16, 2010, 09:04:43 AM

Video here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hjx-DhKlg8&feature=channel)

That's a great video but you should have put in some description and comments rather than just a link. It's a shame you didn't as that one is worth watching.

 :salute to both pilots.

Title: Re: Former War Enemies Reunite As Friends
Post by: redman555 on July 16, 2010, 10:40:10 AM

HEY! Thats where I live!!!!! Roseville, CA lol


-BigBOBCH

Title: Re: Former War Enemies Reunite As Friends
Post by: Plazus on July 16, 2010, 10:58:39 AM

Thanks for the video! Was a pleasure to watch. Who wouldve thought that two people from opposite sides of the war, would come together as friends after fighting eachother on the battlefield?

 :salute

Title: Re: Former War Enemies Reunite As Friends
Post by: 33Vortex on July 16, 2010, 11:31:16 AM

 :aok

True gentlemen, true professionals.  :salute

Title: Re: Former War Enemies Reunite As Friends
Post by: Dago on July 16, 2010, 11:42:51 AM

Quote from: redman555 on July 16, 2010, 10:40:10 AM

HEY! Thats where I live!!!!! Roseville, CA lol


-BigBOBCH

Why is that funny?  "lol"?

Title: Re: Former War Enemies Reunite As Friends
Post by: oakranger on July 16, 2010, 12:56:46 PM

That is awesome that they are friends after all these years. 

Title: Re: Former War Enemies Reunite As Friends
Post by: Yeager on July 16, 2010, 02:57:21 PM

Thanks for posting I enjoyed very much.

This story shines a terribly bright light on the total absurdity of war.  So much death and destruction, only to become best friends decades later.

Maybe it is more a function of regret and the approaching mortality that comes with old age drawing them close.

Title: Re: Former War Enemies Reunite As Friends
Post by: 33Vortex on July 16, 2010, 03:57:41 PM

Quote from: Yeager on July 16, 2010, 02:57:21 PM

Maybe it is more a function of regret and the approaching mortality that comes with old age drawing them close.

I believe it's the mutual respect for each other as professional fighter pilots, and both of them knowing the fact that either one of them could have killed the other. One of the paradoxes of war is that many times in war the men doing the fighting have more in common with each other than they do with their respective leaders. These two gentlemen found mutual respect for eachother in combat, which they could only express after meeting again over 50 years later. I'm sure that for them it was like closing a circle. Both flew their last mission of the war on that day, both were shot down on the occasion.

Title: Re: Former War Enemies Reunite As Friends
Post by: allaire on July 16, 2010, 05:55:36 PM

Quote from: Maverick on July 16, 2010, 10:32:35 AM

That's a great video but you should have put in some description and comments rather than just a link. It's a shame you didn't as that one is worth watching.

 :salute to both pilots.

Do what I have done in the past just copy the link in a post of your own, as long as it complies with the BBS rules, and insert a description of the link and Skuzzy shouldn't have a reason to lock the thread.

Title: Re: Former War Enemies Reunite As Friends
Post by: Babalonian on July 16, 2010, 06:46:07 PM

An accurate description of the video is in the thread's subject... I know, such an unfathomable concept.