Originally Posted by MRM (Post 9546196)

I have no doubt that Paul and the men who served with him would have answered the Lancaster's call in 1940 if they had been in that time and place. It takes no honor away fromthe men who gave the ultimate sacrifice to recognize that there are men and women in our midst who are of the same mettle as those who went before us. It is a credit to humanity that we continue to produce human being of the caliber that men such as me can only aspire to imitate. We honor them all when we honor those who fell in the service of mankind.