My friend... I want to thank you for that amazing story.
You are an American... the very best America has ever produced, and I want to say “Welcome Home” to you, and God Bless you, and thank you for all you have gone through.
That is one of the most moving things I have ever read.
I hope God blesses you with a long life to enjoy. Your story should be mandatory reading to every young Marine, Sailor, Airman, Soldier and Coastie...
I want to ping some other to your story if you don’t mind?
Thank you again.
My sincere apologies. I never meant to imply I was the author of the story. It was sent to me by my friend, Col Phil “Hands” Handley, USAF fighter pilot (retired). Hands holds the record for the highest airspeed (over the mach) air-to-air gun kill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2y_B_uFTNw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPLZazga4RM (about the 3:47 mark, with about the 5:07 mark when he fires his gun)
http://www.fighterpilotuniversity.com/history/fu-heroes/phil-handley-fu-hero/