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Doolittle Raider’s Final Toast To Take Place This November
Warbird Radio ^ | September 5, 2013 | Staff Writer

Posted on 09/05/2013 7:34:04 AM PDT by Little Ray

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To: NonValueAdded; fortheDeclaration; PUGACHEV; Little Ray; Old Sarge

Just got an email, complete with pictures. Like you, I was a bit confused by the “Last” toast. Here’s what my email said:


“So now, out of the original 80, only four Raiders remain: Dick Cole (Doolittle’s co-pilot on the Tokyo raid), Robert Hite, Edward Saylor and David Thatcher. All are in their 90s. They have decided that there are too few of them for the public reunions to continue.
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The men have decided that after this final public reunion they will wait until a later date — some time this year — to get together once more, informally and in absolute privacy. That is when they will open the bottle of brandy.

The years are flowing by too swiftly now; they are not going to wait until there are only two of them.”


May God Bless you and your families, Gentlemen, and also the families of all those whose goblets are already upside-down.


41 posted on 09/06/2013 8:22:19 AM PDT by HeadOn (Be ready at a minute's notice to saddle up.)
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To: HeadOn

That’s the one I was referring to, thanks!


42 posted on 09/06/2013 8:29:36 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
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To: HeadOn

Thanks for the clarification. God Bless them.


43 posted on 09/06/2013 8:30:19 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Henceforth, the Office of the President shall be known as IMPOTUS)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Little Ray.
Today, just four of the men survive: Lt. Col. Richard E. Cole, co-pilot of Crew No. 1; Lt. Col. Robert L. Hite, co-pilot of Crew No. 16; Lt. Col. Edward J. Saylor, engineer-gunner of Crew No. 15; and Staff Sgt. David J. Thatcher, engineer-gunner of Crew No. 7. At this time, all four Raiders are planning to attend the event.

44 posted on 09/06/2013 4:15:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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The four men will crack open the bottle of 1896 cognac that has been saved for this occasion. 1896 was the year GEN Doolittle was born.

Honorable brave men... saved a nation.

45 posted on 09/06/2013 8:42:29 PM PDT by GOPJ (Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts - Churchill)
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My 2nd cousin’s daughter is married to Doolittle’s great grandson or grandson, can’t remember which, but I met him a couple of times at family reunions and he seemed like a very nice young man. Coincidentally, the cousin’s grandmother knew Amelia Earhart when my great Aunt was 17 or 18 one summer in S.C. She told me Amelia was doing some barnstorming and stayed at a hotel she was working in. Funny how the two paths sort of crossed.


46 posted on 09/06/2013 9:05:13 PM PDT by Citizen Soldier ("You care far too much what is written and said about you." Axelrod to Obama 2006)
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