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Humbled again
Admitted an 91 yo ex-WWII Lancaster radio operator overnight.
Nice guy.
Always humbled when I meet those guys, esp from the early campaigns when casualty rates were so high. To climb into those Lancasters time after time....knowing what they were headed into.
Wow.
Just.............. wow.
I remember a story from one of them. A new intake came onto one of the bomber bases, back then the tour was 30 trips. One of the newbies asked in the mess how long it took to get the 30 trips up.
Awkward silence.
To that point, no-one had survived 30 sorties.
Incredible guys. Makes me want to spew everytime I hear some-one is a "hero" for winning a football game.
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(As for) Michael Moore:Calling that lying liberal POS propaganda a documentary is like calling PARF the library of congress.
I knew it would happen, just not so soon...........
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