On this day in history, September 2, 1944, George H.W. Bush is shot down during World War II

Yahoo ^ | 09/02/2024 | Erica Lamberg

[ChicagoConservative27]

He is a hero for his service. I have always wondered what a different trajectory are country would have been on if he won a second term and no Clinton?

[txeagle]

Same graft. Different beneficiaries. Slightly slower timeline to the decline.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Very true

[ABStrauss]

Then GHWB returned to civilian life and became a member of the
Deep State.

[Williams]

The elder Bush was a good guy. Things went downhill with W.
The bad HW reelection campaign against Clinton was a disaster.

[ChicagoConservative27]

I looked up to Reagan and Bush big time when I was young

[wardaddy]

Good man but got co-opted by the borg and new ideologies he failed to understand

[ChicagoConservative27]

I don’t think he understood the Reagan revolution

[Sirius Lee]

Mr. NWO read-my -hips was not a good guy.

[dfwgator]

His hips did lie.

[Vermont Lt]

Anyone who flew planes into battle in that war gets my respect. Flying off a ship? That’s just crazy ballsy.

[z3n]

[NorthMountain]

I don’t think he understood the Reagan revolution

He did not. I, and many others, hoped that he had learned from it. Then he broke the "no new taxes" pledge, and is was all downhill from there.

He was the most recent combat veteran to be elected President.

[Rappini]

Pray that he didn’t. He made Klinton POTUS.

[faithhopecharity]

I thank him for his military service (even though I didn’t care much for his presidency).

[A strike]

GHWB shot down/ditched nearby the Japanese controlled island Chichi Jima. The aviators picked up offshore by sub were lucky. The ones that drifted over/captured were killed by the war criminal commander of the island, (he ate their livers).

[Does so]

It was only after his death that details were released on the other two aircrews who weren’t rescued.

Japanese captured them, and the Jap island commander ordered those American aircrewmen EATEN...!

Post-war testimony disclosed captured Americans were tied to trees and “fresh” pieces cut off as needed.

[wardaddy]

My sons and I watched In Harms Way the other nite

Otto Preminger film

It wasn’t bad

Last of black and white wwiii flicks

[Sirius Lee]

Some reporters did ask him why he broke his no new taxes promise while he was out jogging and the scumbag arrogantly replied “Read my hips”.

I have hated the Bushes ever since.

[jerod]

A bonified hero and there were cameras there to capture the moment... Pretty amazing. And then he got beat by a left wing lunatic who dodged Vietnam, because a dude named Ross Perot wanted to be President... And he had the cash to do it.