[BallyBill]

After my mom died the other year, my sisters and I went through some old pictures. We found a picture of my dad and McNamara from WWII. I was assigned to investigate it and quickly found that McNamara was indeed on Guam with my dad at the time when McNamara was an assistant to LeMay and they were scouting out possible B-29 bases.

Dad died young, but we did remember him talking about meeting somebody from the Kennedy Administration back in WWII, we figured it was just a War Story.

[RetSignman]

Pity.

[razorback-bert]

Well, he was the man behind the Ford Falcon.

[wita]

I was at ground zero where “McNamara’s Wall” was managed. The electronic war on the Ho Chi Minh trail. Of course it was all TS and with the on again off again air war, against the enemy, we were losing the propaganda side of the conflict. We were all war criminals fighting against the rightful government of Vietnam. So under the bus we went.

[EternalVigilance]

High office: Where arrogant educated fools who would under normal circumstances only bore people to death get to kill large numbers of their fellow human beings instead.

[Strategerist]

I distinctly remember him as one of the people before Gulf War I stating we’d end up in World War I style trench warfare for a year with Iraq and have thousands killed.

[abb]

An interesting read on McNamara and his group at Ford Motor.

http://www.amazon.com/Whiz-Kids-Founding-American-Business/dp/0385248040
The Whiz Kids: The Founding Fathers of American Business - and the Legacy they Left Us

[DakotaRed]

I can think of some 58,000 reasons to hope he rests in a very hot area.

It seems the old adage, ‘only the good die young,’ is proven true yet again.

[Lockbar]

If this is true, good news!!!

[smokingfrog]

Another poster boy for ‘The Peter Principle.’

[BellStar]

“I’ve nothing good to say about that departed soul.”

I will have to answer for what I thought when I heard the news!

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.