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    Air force One

    I could give a rats ass who the prez is but that is one beautiful air plane. I watched it fly over mi casa earlier. Wow, I can't wait to fly it!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phillbo View Post
    Wow, I can't wait to fly it!!
    You'll be the first skydiver in history who had to jump with a half dozen Secret Service agents......Ben
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truckman View Post
    You'll be the first skydiver in history who had to jump with a half dozen Secret Service agents......Ben
    Nope... W has done it a few times.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phillbo View Post
    Nope... W has done it a few times.
    You are correct...He set the standard...But it was 41, not 43, right?......Ben
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    Yeah, 41.... Jumped with the Golden Knights.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phillbo View Post
    Yeah, 41.... Jumped with the Golden Knights.
    One of his earliest jumps was in September, 1944 when he and eight other airmen jumped out of their aircraft after a bombing and strafing raid against Japanese forces...The other eight were captured and held on Chichi Jima, a small island in the Bonins...The prevailing winds that day blew Bush's parachute further out to sea where he was later spotted and picked up by the USS Finback (SS-230)...The other eight were held captive, and some later beheaded and eaten by Japanese officers in a ritual cannibal act...None survived...For those interested, I recommend Flyboys by James Bradley for the full story...

    The President was said to feel some guilt for the rest of his life having been the only one of those who jumped to have lived to remember it...Today marks the 75th anniversary of the invasion of one of the other, better known islands of the Bonin Group, Iwo Jima (jima means island in the Japanese language)...One of my research contacts is a Canadian group of mapmakers...This is an interactive map they just completed showing what the US forces were up against......Ben
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    I look at maps like that and am in awe of our men again over what they had to get through. All the videos of the war, the god awful hell that our men went through to free us and the rest of the world. I wonder how our leaders can work so hard, so to speak to start more wars.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mgrist View Post
    I look at maps like that and am in awe of our men again over what they had to get through. All the videos of the war, the god awful hell that our men went through to free us and the rest of the world. I wonder how our leaders can work so hard, so to speak to start more wars.
    Simple: none of those maggots in power have ever had the balls to lay their asses on the line. They have no clue and don't care about anyone that couldn't buy their way out.
    "The only thing that we learn from torture is the depths of our own moral depravity"

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    Some, such as presidents George H.W. Bush and JFK laid “their ass on the line.”
    ...............
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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post
    Some, such as presidents George H.W. Bush and JFK laid “their ass on the line.”
    I was referring to 95% of the current maggot crop in Federal office

    Ike, JFK, Ford, Carter, GHWB. all served.
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    Eric----you missed GWB

    Oh---never mind---he went "missing"---I forgot
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    Eric----you missed GWB

    Oh---never mind---he went "missing"---I forgot
    By one count, 31 US Presidents served their nation in the military, while 14 did not...Service records are always open to interpretation by those with agendas of their own...That may be why they are unavailable for viewing except by certain surviving family members, or by the veterans themselves...My own research into my Uncle's WWII service hit a blank wall, leaving me to my own interpretation from other sources...

    "Missing" records can happen for a number of reasons as I have discovered by experience......Ben
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    Quote Originally Posted by Truckman View Post
    By one count, 31 US Presidents served their nation in the military, while 14 did not...Service records are always open to interpretation by those with agendas of their own...That may be why they are unavailable for viewing except by certain surviving family members, or by the veterans themselves...My own research into my Uncle's WWII service hit a blank wall, leaving me to my own interpretation from other sources...

    "Missing" records can happen for a number of reasons as I have discovered by experience......Ben
    I was just being a smart ass---I actually have come to kinda of like the guy---it's like a little brother thing No slam intended.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    I was just being a smart ass---I actually have come to kinda of like the guy---it's like a little brother thing No slam intended.
    I think I knew that...Even I have my wiseass moments (believe it or not)......Ben
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