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Boyington Shot Down
American Spectator ^ | February 21, 2006 | Thomas Lipscomb

Posted on 02/20/2006 8:22:58 PM PST by WaterDragon

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To: RobbyS
And China. And Indochina. And Indonesia. And wherever. Australia, "Good luck, blokes."
21 posted on 02/20/2006 10:47:38 PM PST by oyez (Appeasement is insanity.)
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To: WaterDragon

This just in...College Sophomores Act Stupid...film at 11.


22 posted on 02/20/2006 10:50:59 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: WaterDragon

I think the student who didn't want to put up a statue to another "rich white man" should be kicked out of school. She's only taking the place of someone who actually has a brain.


23 posted on 02/20/2006 10:57:33 PM PST by KellyAdmirer
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To: WaterDragon
The worst generation refuses to recognize the achievements and sacrifices of the Greatest Generation
24 posted on 02/20/2006 11:47:02 PM PST by pterional
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To: WaterDragon

no·to·ri·ous (n-tôr-s, -tr-)- adj: having an exceedingly bad reputation; known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous: a notorious gangster; a district notorious for crime.

I think the word they were seeking was famous, acclaimed, illustrious, or celebrated; something of that nature.


25 posted on 02/21/2006 2:28:18 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: WaterDragon

Possibly noteworthy?


26 posted on 02/21/2006 2:31:12 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: CheyennePress

Beautiful, thanks...


27 posted on 02/21/2006 2:33:42 AM PST by Barney59 ("Time wounds all heels.")
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To: WaterDragon
The mental image of "Pappy" smashing a hank-drunk bottle of JD over the head and knocking their teeth out of some of these idiots keeps me sane.
28 posted on 02/21/2006 2:36:12 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Only1choice____Freedom

'College boys.'

29 posted on 02/21/2006 2:40:09 AM PST by real saxophonist (I survived Parris Island AND Hurricane Hugo! At the same time! Semper Fi)
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To: real saxophonist
hank-drunk

I think that is a condition I was in about a week ago.

30 posted on 02/21/2006 8:00:44 AM PST by oyez (Appeasement is insanity.)
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There was great hostility in the USA to "colonialism." Thank FDR, who held to the "open-door"policy for China and did not want British and Dutch imperialism to be replaced by Japanese imperialism.


31 posted on 02/21/2006 8:02:44 AM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: clintonh8r
They would accept a tribute to rich European white men if they were Lenin and Marx.
32 posted on 02/21/2006 2:48:57 PM PST by oyez (Appeasement is insanity)
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To: blackdiamondracer
Why do you cll him notorious?

I think the word is used in the article because "Pappy" was notorious for his drinking and being anti-authoritarian (to put it nicely!:))

He was 'notorious' in a way that we admire -- independent, cussed, getting the job done any old way he could, the niceties be damned!t

33 posted on 02/21/2006 2:52:40 PM PST by WaterDragon
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Here's the story of 'Pappy' Boyington, written by a Marine.....

http://vipersden.blogspot.com/2006/02/i-hope-they-dont-make-me-choose.html
I Hope They Don't Make Me Choose
This really pissed me off.

Greg Hallenbeck was like many men of his generation. He had to work hard to get a good start in life. A tough, stocky kid, part Sioux Indian, he managed to get to the University of Washington in the teeth of the Great Depression.

By that time his parents were separated. His mother helped him through school by working as a switch board operator in Tacoma, Wash. To pick up the rest of the financial slack he had to work all his spare hours at various jobs. During the summers he worked in a gold mine in Idaho, his home state.

If the work was a burden, Greg didn't show it. He realized that his university education was a privilege and he took full advantage of it. He signed up for ROTC, made the university wrestling and swimming teams, joined a fraternity and graduated four years later (1934) with a degree in aeronautical engineering.

With his Army ROTC commission he served with the Coast Artillery Reserve in Washington state. Meanwhile, he had been fortunate enough to land a job as a draftsman at Boeing Aircraft, in Tacoma, after graduation. He loved airplanes and he wanted to fly.
And fly he did. Into history.

He joined the Marine Corps Reserve in 1936 as an aviation cadet. He got his wings in 1937 and accepted a commission in the regular Marine Corps later that year. By 1940, he was at Pensacola Naval Air Station as a flight instructor, as the clouds of World War II loomed ever closer to the United States.

Greg didn't wait for the war. He went to it. He joined the American Volunteer Group, later known as the famed Flying Tigers, to help defend China against Japan. In his military career since graduation he had become known not by his stepfather's name, Hallenbeck, but by his father's name, Boyington.....[click the url and read the Rest of the Story]


34 posted on 02/21/2006 4:50:18 PM PST by WaterDragon
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To: WaterDragon

Laura Ingraham is interviewing these commie idiots on her show now.


35 posted on 02/23/2006 8:42:46 AM PST by hattend (Facts destroy Liberalism. It's an undeniable fact of life. - Rush Limbaugh)
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