[MrChips]

Gasp! No! Horrors!

[ambrose]

"That a major general in the Air Force would take interest in a brand new Air Force trainee made a big impression on me," then Texas Rep. George Bush wrote to Maj. Gen. G.B. Greene Jr., commander of the Lackland Air Force Base Military Training Center, on Sept. 11, 1968.

Hmmm... was it my imagination, or were the Rats planning to run ads attacking Bush for saying he was in the Air Force as well as the Guard?

It seems that this Air Force General believed W was in the Air Force.

[ClearCase_guy]

Oooooooooh! Writing a thank-you-note is a Bad Thing!

There was a day when adults sent polite letters to each other as a matter of course. Now, it appears it's a federal crime.

[dennisw]

George HW Bush is very well known for writing thank you notes! Thousands each year when President and in public life.

[WestTexasWend]

What? No letter from the CO asking Rep. Bush about Dubya's favorite cereal or what his favorite comic books are so they can make him feel more at home at Lackland?

Well, I'm sure Someone In Texas is slaving over a hot keyboard right now and Dan will break that story when it's time...

[Elvis van Foster]

This letter was so innocuous that it didn't end up in the fifteen-gallon trashcan at midnight.

[NutmegDevil]

When I was about to "graduate" from Air Force Officer Training School (OTS) at Lackland in 1964, we were given a questionnaire that asked if we had any VIPs in the family - General Officers, GS-16s or above, members of the U.S. Congress who might attend graduation. I'm sure the MGEN at Lackland wrote to all U.S. Representatives of OTs - in order to curry favor for the Air Force.

G.H.W. Bush had his secretary (LTC Lillian's secretary should know her name as she told Dan that GW would call her by his dad's secretary's name) answer with a folksy response.

An aside:I once had a secretary whose husband had been an E-9 in DC and she was the personal secretary for a member of Congress. Based on that experience, I would bet that all GW's dad did was sign the letter - his secretary no doubt prepared it in the normal course of doing business at that level.

[P-Marlowe]

Lets keep this in the news. This attention to Bush's service in 1972 and 1973 will soon be contrasted with what Kerry was doing in 1972 and 1973, i.e., meeting in Paris with the enemy and sitting in meetings where the assasination of congressmen and senators was being voted upon.

Yeah, I think George can take the heat. Can Kerry?

Go Swiftvets!

[MagnumRancid]

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WASHINGTON - The Pentagon Friday released more documents on President Bush’s Vietnam-era Air National Guard Service, including a letter from his then-congressman father George Bush thanking a general for “taking interest in a brand new Air Force trainee.”
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This what really annoys me about the MSM. This is their subtle bias at work. The article tells the whole story, including the fact that GHWB's letter was in response to the commanders letter, but the opening sentence, which is what most folks are going to read, implies special treatment. They may as well have added "nudge, nudge, wink, wink" to the end of it.

[Dilbert56]

Gee, the last paragraph of the last document mentions his citations. The ones the DUmmies were claiming he didn't earn and was wearing undeservedly in that ancient picture. FU DU.

[Farmersfight-A]

I have been waiting for more than a year to see that letter get out to the public. I had a great conversation with President Bush's TI TSgt Onaki last year. Some wonderful stories from him and even more stories from members of his flight G-168, 3724th Basic Military Training Squadron. They are all proud of him as the first enlisted airman to become the Commander-in-Chief. So am I.

[jwalsh07]

Whoa! A commander communicating with one of the troops parents? Simply unheard of!

[Feckless]

As a First Sergeant of a training Company at Ft. Dix, NJ in 88-90 I received many letters from parents of young soldiers who were amazed at what a little discipline and self confidence had done for their kids. My wife, a Basic Training Drill Sergeant got even more.

Sure hope none of those young soldiers ever run for office as Republicans, those letters could come back to haunt them.

[tvn]

Now this is CLASS! Bush as his best. Hey Union thugs, do you like apples?
US News ^ | JohnK.

Posted on 09/17/2004 6:52:35 PM PDT by jsk10

If the picture of little 3-year-old Sophia Parlock crying after some Kerry-Edwards supporters tore up her Bush-Cheney poster got to you, well, you weren't the only one. President Bush and even first pup Barney were dismayed too, we hear. It happened at a West Virginia rally last week for Democratic running mate Sen. John Edwards, to which Phil Parlock brought his daughter. After seeing the picture of the tearful Sophia on her dad's shoulders, aides said the president was sending her a little note Friday along with a signed campaign poster and an autographed photo of the prez and his dog. "Dear Sophia," Bush penned, "Thank you for supporting my campaign. I understand someone tore up your sign. So I am sending you a new sign and a signed picture. Please give my best to your family. Sincerely, George W. Bush." And on the picture, he inked: "To Sophia, Best wishes from me and Barney." Phil Parlock tells us it really wasn't necessary. "He already said 'Thank you' when he hugged her" at a previous Bush rally they attended, he says. "She bragged for days."