Yes, my and our thanks to all who served. Patrick Moore, who missed Vietnam by a year or so.
I recall taking my father, just a few months before his death, out to Double Eagle airport here in ABQ to see a refurbished B 17G (the one called "Aluminum Overcast," though this name properly belonged to the far, far, *far* bigger B 36), the type he flew in as a waist gunner (at 28K feet, shooting a .50 caliber gun through a hole in the aluminum sheet metal. What a job! He never talked much about it, but he did describe how they had to fly slow, straight and steady on target approach while the flack burst all around them, occasionally sending shrapnel rattling through the fuselage. The B 17 was tiny -- and carried a crew of 10! -- and primitive; close to the Wright brothers than to modern jets. My father volunteered for extra missions, and he started in 1943 when the statistics still had you dead before you completed your 25 missions. We had to dig out his medals after his death; I think my brother has them. He never displayed them. On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:53 AM, Tom Virgil <tevir...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks to all of you who served. And thanks to all of you who provided > support though letters, phone calls, care packages and so much more. Those > touchstones from home kept us going in so many ways. > > Am pleasantly surprised that even Google is into it. > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QfWv18zGZp8/WCV4JzDXQxI/AAAAAAAAAL0/y4LUakKUDlM_IHStQ4129nbXVBMCQ_YOACLcB/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2016-11-10%2Bat%2B11.48.14%2BPM.png> > > > ~Tom (former USAF) > > ObRiv: Tomorrow Sam will ride the 56 and Coast Highway with American > flags in honor of all that others have sacrificed. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************************************************** ************** *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on the contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the world revolves.) *Carthusian motto *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
