Sometimes you have to be unprofessional

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[perfect stranger]

Now without searching his name, how many know who Gail Halvorsen is?

[jocon307]

Well I don't, but it seems like a scando name, not german.

[isthisnickcool]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1319734/posts

[Semper911]

The candy bomber.

[Darkwolf377]

"The day an American has to move a European out of the way to help in some part of the world it will be a great day in the world"

That must have rattled em.

[Darkwolf377]

Uhhhh...hmmmm...

Explanation from the poster of this thread required...

[IronJack]

I cheated and did the research.

Touche.

[Professional]

Unprofessional? Never!

-Professional

[Cornpone]

Great story. I have a similar one from a contract signing in Dubai. It made me wonder why my company was even doing business with the arrogant scum. I'm sure you must sometimes feel the same.

I'm afraid I didn't know who Gail was without searching. Certainly a name your apologetic associate should have known...except all the history books have been rewritten there. DeGaulle saved Europe.

[BenLurkin]

"Amazon.com has helped more than France has."

[Professional]

Good story bump!

[BenLurkin]

http://www.geocities.com/ldsceleb/halvorsen.htm

[lavrenti]

I cheated, so I won't say.

Whoa!

[BenLurkin]

BTW, I didn't know.

[libs_kma]

I had to look, but then when I did I saw that I should have known because I saw a documentary recently that featured Gail Halverson. The candy bomber during the Berlin airlift. Good story and posting, thank you.

A few years ago I was working in Europe with a very diverse work team. It also just happened to be during the 2000 US election and most of the Europeans I was working with wanted algore to win. That more than anything else made me want to tell my European co-workers that I'm glad their opinions didn't have an effect on our elections.

And then I couldn't help rubbing their smug noses in it when it was apparent that President Bush was the President-elect. The only one of the team that I could stand to have a political discussion with was a Hindu, originally from India. He made sense, he was articulate and had reason and logic instead of only "feelings", to back up his support of GWB.

[jwalburg]

Bravo!

(I'm too lazy to cheat and don't have enough curiosity either.)

[lady lawyer]

Uncle Wiggly Wings

[diamond6]

Very proud of you for sticking up for our country and our president!!!

Kudos!!!

[Happygal]

This is a great story.

But I doubt he said all that, straight off the cuff.

[xJones]

I searched, but I'm not German and my parents didn't receive any of the candy bombers kind gifts. Gail Halvorsen.