Posted on 10/14/2006 4:40:07 PM PDT by silent_jonny
Today, President Bush and Mrs. Bush joined Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in Arlington, Virginia for the dedication of the U.S. Air Force Memorial.
Also in attendance were Chairman of the Air Force Memorial Foundation, Ross Perot Jr.; Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne; Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General T. Michael Moseley; Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Rodney McKinley; Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Nicholson and Major General Edward F. Grillo (USAF retired) President of the Air Force Memorial Foundation.
Click here for a complete transcript of GWB’s speech.
Later, President Bush delivered a short statement about North Korea to the press on the South Lawn of the White House before he returned to Camp David.
Enjoy your Saturday visit to Sanity Island
Wow! All I knew was that he was in the Air Force--I never guessed he flew bombers!
Thanks for posting the DOSE tonight . . . The Air Force Memorial Dedication Ceremony was absolutely AWESOME -- I particularly enjoyed the President's speech and the flyovers both by the heritage planes and the Thunderbirds!
I'm off to prepare some snacks for my daughter and her friends -- she (my daughter) is hosting a sleepover!
Until tomorrow's DOSE . . .
I didn't know about it either. Just flipped on FOX and there it was. Even though you didn't get to see it in person, at least you got to see it without any interruption :)
I thought this was going to be a slow news day. I was even planning on piggy-backing on your Dose from last night ...
But the president won't give me a break :)
woah i haven't been on in a while. how's everyone doing? i've been busy with school and haven't really been online that much.
next month i'm going to washington dc and we're going to try to go to the veterans day speech! i hope we make it.
hope everyone is doing well,
~*~kelly~*~
go tigers!
Yes...he was also good friends of Tom Ferebee who was the bombardier of the Enola Gay....Ferebee called my mom several times, when he was in town, after my dad's death.
The Air Force Memorial is gorgeous and well deserved.
Indeed.
Thanks for the dose and the great photos.
The U.S. Air Force Memorial is beautiful.
LOL!
and my favorte poem of all time:
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings,
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft though footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew.
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sactity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
By: Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (September 1941)
OH you never hear of that nickname of Ross Perot before he go by Little General BIG Ears and others on FR LOLOL!
You know, when I was putting the Dose together, I thought it sure would be nice if Mystery won a toaster tonight of all nights .... It was meant to be :)
Thanks for the update on Gerald Ford
My heart will always belong to the USAF.....
They should like our jelly snakes/worms that I used to eat as a child.
And you do it so well
Imagine though if you saw her before Botox LOL
Oh pleaseee I know what she look like without Botox LOL! remember I am SO CAL person she look baddddd
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