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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Sundowner on March 09, 2013, 05:08:40 PM
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If posted previously-sorry.
If not-enjoy the read.
Regards,
Sun
The pilot glanced outside his cockpit and froze. He blinked hard and looked again, hoping it was just a mirage. But his co-pilot stared at the same horrible vision.
"My God, this is a nightmare," the co-pilot said.
"He's going to destroy us," the pilot agreed.
The men were looking at a gray German Messerschmitt fighter hovering just three feet off their wingtip. It was five days before Christmas 1943, and the fighter had closed in on their crippled American B-17 bomber for the kill.
The B-17 pilot, Charles Brown, was a 21-year-old West Virginia farm boy on his first combat mission. His bomber had been shot to pieces by swarming fighters, and his plane was alone in the skies above Germany. Half his crew was wounded, and the tail gunner was dead, his blood frozen in icicles over the machine guns.
But when Brown and his co-pilot, Spencer "Pinky" Luke, looked at the fighter pilot again, something odd happened. The German didn't pull the trigger. He nodded at Brown instead. What happened next was one of the most remarkable acts of chivalry recorded during World War II. Years later, Brown would track down his would-be executioner for a reunion that reduced both men to tears.........
The rest of the story:---
Click "hide caption" for a cool painting of the B-17 and the Messerschmitt.----SD
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/09/living/higher-call-military-chivalry/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
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Like the article? Buy the book "A Higher Call" by Adam Makos. It's well worth it. :aok
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Some day someone will start a war, and no one will bother to show up. :salute
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I feel like this gets posted every month... :noid
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I feel like this gets posted every month... :noid
Would you feel better if I said sorry again?
Sorry.
Regards,
Sun
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Not feeling it....need more enthusiasm. :noid :old:
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This never grows old. Still love reading it :salute
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from the article you posted:
"The code is designed to prevent soldiers from becoming monsters. Butchering civilians, torturing prisoners, desecrating the enemies' bodies -- are all battlefield behaviors that erode a soldier's humanity, French says.
such bs. they use a good story to try to promote a code which may or may not be there in order to sell books. in ww2 alone millions of civilians died in concentration camps, pow's were tortured, women and young girls raped and killed... list goes on and on.
there are acts of mercy in every war from both sides. but these arent due to a "warrior code" but more to a sense by some that we are all human beings after all.
the story is a little bit embellished on the article you posted.
http://www.snopes.com/military/charliebrown.asp
semp
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Not feeling it....need more enthusiasm. :noid :old:
Can you feel the enthusiasm now?
(http://www.xerxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/internet_bullies.jpg)
Regards,
Sun
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"....such bs. they use a good story to try to promote a code which may or may not be there in order to sell books"
Sorry,I couldn't find a place on the CNN site that was selling books about the article.
Regard,
Sun
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"....such bs. they use a good story to try to promote a code which may or may not be there in order to sell books"
Sorry,I couldn't find a place on the CNN site that was selling books about the article.
Regard,
Sun
"It's called the warrior's code, say soldiers and military scholars. It's shaped cultures as diverse as the Vikings, the Samurai, the Romans and Native Americans, says Shannon E. French, author of "Code of the Warrior.""
semp
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"It's called the warrior's code, say soldiers and military scholars. It's shaped cultures as diverse as the Vikings, the Samurai, the Romans and Native Americans, says Shannon E. French, author of "Code of the Warrior.""
semp
They quoted an author that wrote a book about the topic..still cant find where they are selling books on the site.
Link on the site to buy the book?
Regards,
Sun
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They quoted an author that wrote a book about the topic..still cant find where they are selling books on the site.
Link on the site to buy the book?
Regards,
Sun
I didnt say the site was selling the book. I said they're using a story to promote a code which may or may not be there in order to sell books. but you do know how cnn makes money to pay the guy posting the story right?
semp
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Can you feel the enthusiasm now?
(http://www.xerxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/internet_bullies.jpg)
Regards,
Sun
(http://static1.fjcdn.com/comments/Holy+shit+people+here+can+t+take+a+joke+_b40dcd3e81b8cec089483712c33e83cc.jpg)
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Can you feel the enthusiasm now?
(http://www.xerxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/internet_bullies.jpg)
Regards,
Sun
YES!!! :devil
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I feel like this gets posted every month... :noid
No kidding.
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I feel like this gets posted every month... :noid
Nope, haven't seen it posted in a long time.
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nom nom :x blue booty :x nom nom
<S> Caldera :salute
:eek: NOM NOM :rock :pray :D
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I love this story. It never gets old. :salute
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Here's what happens when you try to do a Stigler in Aces High:-
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?i9uy0u9qqkraly6
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Would you feel better if I said sorry again?
Sorry.
Regards,
Sun
do it monthly... :neener: :bolt: