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| 06/12/2007
| Jan Pearson Jenkins
Posted on 06/12/2007 12:20:53 PM PDT by jpjenkins
HTML. My dad's experience. Same as your dads?
TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: armyaircorps; evanjpearson; humppilot; newbie
I appreciate all of those who wrote about their experience in the China-Burma-India theater. My dad was silent about most of his WWII experience. After I saw "Flags of our Fathers" I received a greater understanding why. To all of our heroes, I am gratetful. I tried, I honestly did, but my dad was silent on the subject.
He lived a great life and died at age 81. I salute all of you who served in this arena of WWII. It is rarely in history books, but is certainly part of our history, especially to the progenity (sp?) of those of us who are decendents of these heroes.
Jan Pearson-Jenkins
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posted on
06/12/2007 12:20:54 PM PDT
by
jpjenkins
To: jpjenkins
Our Senator-for-life, Ted Stevens, was a Hump pilot.
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posted on
06/12/2007 12:35:45 PM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(Run, Fred run! I will send my donation as soon as you announce.)
To: jpjenkins; Aeronaut
The WWII CBI (ChinaBurmaIndia) pilots paved the way for a lot of todays' air freighter operations.
Thanks for the reminder; will *ping* the AviationList to this one...
p.s. - Welcome to FR
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posted on
06/12/2007 3:42:21 PM PDT
by
GoldCountryRedneck
("Why can’t we start solving the problem by breaking up Big Government?"- MortMan)
To: GoldCountryRedneck; Tijeras_Slim; FireTrack; Pukin Dog; citabria; B Knotts; kilowhskey; ...
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posted on
06/13/2007 12:47:08 AM PDT
by
Aeronaut
(Hebrews 13:4)
To: Aeronaut
Knew some of Flying Tigers, we did the steel stud framing and drywall on the Hungry Tiger resturanta and the guy that flew one of them’s P-51 gave me my instrument check ride.
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posted on
06/13/2007 1:10:03 AM PDT
by
dalereed
To: administrator; jpjenkins
I think we have a Google troll posting this thread.
jpjenkins joined yesterday and the URL connects to Google’s homepage.
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posted on
06/13/2007 7:48:09 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(DRIP = "Don't Return Incumbent Politicians," – two terms, and they're out.)
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