Posted on 09/04/2024 12:12:03 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
While off the Japanese island of Chichijima on this day in history on Sept. 2, 1944, then-future President George H.W. Bush was the only survivor after his aircraft was shot down by enemy fire, according to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana.
At the time, Lt. Junior Grade George Bush was a pilot with Torpedo Squadron Fifty-One (VT-51) aboard the aircraft carrier USS San Jacinto (CVL-30), a light carrier that was deployed in the North Pacific, according to U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command.
Bush’s squadron was conducting a bombing mission when it encountered heavy anti-aircraft fire, according to records from the U.S. Navy.
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I’m a veteran and I get sick and tired of the ‘he’s a hero because he served’ trope.
You can’t judge a man’s character for something he did in his twenties when most other men of his cohort were doing the same thing.
A man’s character is more clearly revealed when his reputation, position, affluence and standing among ‘honorable men’ is at risk later in life; not when he is doing physically risky stuff when he is young.
With fava beans and a nice chianti?
He was crummy and was happy to let Reagan take the hit for Iran contra. He was a deep state turd, pushed on Reagan after Reagan won the nomination.
So was one the eaten ones Biden’s uncle????”
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Perhaps that is the “seed” that germinated in Biden’s so-called brain.
It’s 80% drama for sure
Great cast
He was flying and F4F Hellcat, IIRC.
Read “Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila” by Michael Scott. The Rape of Nanking was not a one-off. Like you said; a bad, bad group of people.
Sorry. It seems history is lost on posters like you.
“Read my lips, no new taxes” made Klinton POTUS.
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