I see he was a Starfighter pilot. That's really something. Probably the most difficult of the Century series aircraft to fly. Like the F-16 it was sold all over the place, including the Turks, Greeks, Italians, Germans, Nationalist Chinese, plus others. But unlike the F-16, not used so much by the USAF.
Was your Dad an instructor? That doesn't look quite like a standard US flight suit of the period, especially what I guess is the rank insignia.
Our long time pediatrician, when the girls were young (now 35 and almost 30) is a Filipina. Our previous one was Thai. She switched to allergy and immunology, and became our allergist, at least one of the nurses was also Thai. Her husband was our GP, he is Thai too. The ladies all had good English, even the nurse, but Mr. Dr. K was really difficult to understand at times, but I still trusted him with the scalpel applied to a very delicate region, if you know what I mean.
The problem with Obama isn't his Kenyan father.
Except Constitutionally, you know as in "support and defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic". If his Kenyan father had been naturalized before he was born, there would be no issue, at least from me.
Thanks for asking. My Dad flew P-47s & P51s in WW2, then B-26s in Korea. Most of his career was in interceptors, and he liked the 104. He was an instructor in Taiwan, I think, although I was only 7 at the time.
In 1971 he cross-trained into helicopters, then went to Vietnam. He was supposed to do mostly paperwork, but he flew helicopters 3 days a week, and A-37s on his ‘paperwork’ days. He was killed in a helicopter crash in April 1972.
A remarkable man, and a remarkable generation. His brothers all did quite well by a combination of intelligence and very hard work. 12 hours was a light day to them, and evenings were for study and trying to better oneself. After my Dad died, my Mom revealed he had suffered from frequent and terrible nightmares, but he never once told her a word about what was in them. An uncle in the Merchant Marine was washed overboard 3 times in WW2, and his family didn’t find out until seeing his records after his death.
I don’t have a single memory of my Dad ever complaining about anything. I can’t imagine what he would think of the identity politics and entitlement mentality today. It is a very different world, and that isn’t a compliment to today!
To briefly return to the topic - you are correct, the Supreme Court has never formally ruled on NBC. I was surprised when they passed in Dec 2008, and now I doubt they will ever rule. I’d be happy if they would roll back some of WKA, which IMHO amended the Constitution by court fiat in ignoring the whole ‘under the jurisdiction’ phrase. Of course, it is a safe bet that the ‘wise Latina’ added recently would never vote for that...
Thanks for enduring my rants. I’ve spent a fair bit of the day thinking about the changes in America, and it makes for some sad thoughts. We don’t see eye to eye, but I wish you the best as you go on.