[NautiNurse]

RIP and godspeed Colonel Day.

We will not forget your tremendous life and legacy. Thank you.

[kristinn]

Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth ping.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Thank you for your service Colonel. You were an amazing individual.

[onyx]

Retired Air Force Colonels Bob Gates, left, and Bud Day pose for a photograph Feb. 24, 2013 while celebrating Day's 88th birthday at the Magnolia Grill in Fort Walton Beach.

[NautiNurse]

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

I remember that he appeared on a few of the military channel episodes.

A true gentleman and gentle man.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The type of man John McKeating should have been.

[rfreedom4u]

He has “slipped the surly bonds of Earth”

God speed!

[stanne]

Thanks for the notice, Kristinn.

All interested, please skim this piece:

http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/d/d051.htm

[Leofl]

“His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’”

[larryjohnson]

Subject: A Message from MOH Recipient Col. Bud Day

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906706/posts

[Gay State Conservative]

Brokaw's been right *once* in his entire career...when he coined the phrase “The Greatest Generation”.Colonel Day has certainly earned *that* title.

[Alas Babylon!]

Awww, NO!

Being outside of Montgomery, Alabama, and the last base I was stationed at was Maxwell, AFB, and as Maxwell is the home of Air University; Colonel Day would often attend the annual Gathering of Eagles event that AU put on.

I've seen and spoken to the good Colonel. He is one of my true heroes!

Sir, I salute you, and morn your passing! Fly up to God now, Sir! "Eagles up!"

[LuvFreeRepublic]

More on Col. Day:

http://www.veterantributes.org/TributeDetail.php?recordID=16

My dad was flying the F-105 over North Vietnam when Day was shot down. Every time a pilot went down, regardless of the home base, the news traveled fast. RIP Col., say hello to my dad and all the other heroes who have taken their final flight west. Two nickels on the ground. One for Col. Day and one for Col. Dad.

[BykrBayb]

I think he was acquainted with my brother, who is buried at Barancas. May he rest in peace.

[annalex]

Lord Jesus, rest the soul of Thy servant Bud with the angels and saints.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, amen.

[Repulican Donkey]

He and his generation of warriors were so short-changed and betrayed by politicians. God Bless him and all the Viet Vets!

[spankalib]

RIP
Having just finished “Unbroken” about Louie Zamperini
(another unbelievable hero!)
I will be reading Coram’s “American Patriot”.

The horrific abuse these brave men experienced & survived with faith locked in their hearts astounds me.

[jazusamo]

RIP Colonel Day.

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941

[Doogle]