Former War Enemies Reunite As Friends

[Mus51]

Video here

[Maverick]

Video here

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.

  to both pilots.

[redman555]

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


-BigBOBCH

[Plazus]

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?

 

[33Vortex]

 

True gentlemen, true professionals. 

[Dago]

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


-BigBOBCH

Why is that funny?  "lol"?

[oakranger]

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

[Yeager]

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.

[33Vortex]

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.

[allaire]

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.

  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.

[Babalonian]

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