[Mr. Silverback]

1. Cite your source.

2. If he said that it was modesty. One does not go on a raid into Germany lightly. He was serving in a war in which 16 million Americans were serving; he did not need to fly with the Eighth to get a good story. I never claimed he was Captain America, I claimed he had combat time.

[NewinTexsas]

I claimed he had combat time.

But not as a soldier, as a socialist anti-war pacifist correspondent who didn't want to be the only correspondent in his group not to go with the squadrons.

[NewinTexsas]

If he said that it was modesty.

I don't think anyone can seriously claim that AR was ever modest!

[NewinTexsas]

he did not need to fly with the Eighth to get a good story.

Yes he did.