Still chokes me up

13 September 2015, 04:47

Bill/Oregon

Still chokes me up

The song of the Curtiss-Wright radials screwing that B-17 through the air does it every time. Last Thursday, Salem Oregon. RIP
Uncle Milton, tail gunner in 17s in the Pacific and European theaters, wounded both theaters.

There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.
– John Green, author

Paul Smith
SCI Life Member
NRA Life Member
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Life Member of the "I Can't Wait to Get Back to Africa" Club
DRSS
I had the privilege to fire E. Hemingway's WR .577NE, E. Keith's WR .470NE, & F. Jamieson's WJJ .500 Jeffery
I strongly recommend avoidance of "The Zambezi Safari & Travel Co., Ltd." and "Pisces Sportfishing-Cabo San Lucas"

"A failed policy of national defense is its own punishment" Otto von Bismarck

14 September 2015, 02:40

Bill/Oregon

Thanks Paul. Did the video play for you? Picture is worthless, but the sound comes through.

There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.
– John Green, author

Rusty
We Band of Brothers!
DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member
"I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends."
----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836
"I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841
"for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.”