Posted on 12/23/2010 5:43:09 PM PST by pissant
Over the last couple months I have been bringing books, two sackfuls at a time to Maxwell’s House Of Books in exchange for store credit. So far, my schlepping of about 70 books has yielded a credit of $38. Yesterday I gobbled up twenty of it so I could own a copy of Duncan L. Hunter‘s new book, Victory In Iraq: How America Won. Why? Because that’s a great title and because Hunter was going to be in La Mesa, at Maxwell’s signing copies. The photo above shows Hunter signing my actual book. After he signed it we chatted for a minute or two and then I was going to be more or less on my way.
I scanned book titles as I slowly walked towards the door when a woman noticed my camera, which lead to a brief conversation that ended with her saying what a great photo op this is since the congressman and Chuck Yeager are here. “Yeah, it sure is,” I replied. “We’re very lucky to have… Wait. What?!?”
Chuck Yeager, the first human being on the planet to travel faster than the speed of sound, the most famous aviator in the world for over 60 years is in this bookstore right now? What? Turns out, Chuck Yeager and Duncan L. Hunter are old friends so General Yeager
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Duncan Hunter was my rep when I lived in El Cajon and Darrell Issa was my rep when I lived in Oceanside. Love them both, but especially Duncan Hunter. He would have been a superlative president. What an honor for you...an early Christmas present for sure!
Cool. Hunter should be our POTUS.
That story is not mine. It’s from some random blogger. Though I have met Mr. Hunter a couple of times.
Remember the clown who claimed Chuck Yeager was a cross dresser? LOL
Chuck Yeager
Command pilot
Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
Silver Star, for shooting down five Bf 109s in one day,[22] with one oak leaf cluster
Legion of Merit with one oak leaf cluster
Distinguished Flying Cross, for an Me 262 kill,[23] with two oak leaf clusters, including first to break the sound barrier
Bronze Star, for helping rescue a fellow airman from Occupied France,[6] with “V” device
Purple Heart
Air Medal with 10 oak leaf clusters
Air Force Commendation Medal
Distinguished Unit Citation Emblem with oak leaf cluster
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
American Defense Service Medal
American Campaign Medal
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (8 battle stars)
World War II Victory Medal
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Congressional Silver Medal (1976), for breaking the sound barrier for the first time.[24][25]
Collier Trophy and Mackay Trophy, for breaking the sound barrier for the first time.
It’s not the same one who keeps telling us Hunter is under investigation by the FBI, was it?
He would have manhandled Obama in a debate.
Why is a blog in the news section?
Probably. I believe it was a Romneybot.
Slow news day?
I met Chuck Yeager in 1982 at Peterson AFB, CO. He’s an incredible American.
Alas, he ain’t going for it this time. SecDef though, I hope.
He'd be a fine President. If not, he should be on any conservative President's short list for SecDef.
Ditto here.
Hey Pissant, if Palin stated Hunter would be her top choice for VP or SecDef, would you think differently about her?
Like he manhandled McCain, Romney, Huckabee, Guiliani, Ron Paul, Brownback and Tancredo in the debates?
Hunter's debating skills are what took him to the top of the polls. lol.
Actually he did manhandle them in the debates. I just wasn’t one of the pathetic morons who thought it was cool the way the rest of them could evade answers. At least he was man enough to give answers.
While everybody else was crying about CNN trapping them, Hunter was sending out letters asking for more hostile questions.
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