Truthfully, I'm not being original this morning. I was impressed with a little article from Navy News about the upcoming commemoration of the Battle of Midway that captures the essence of Memorial Day and am passing it along.
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[Retired CAPT John W.] Crawford said that one of his vivid memories is being in a room with the torpedo plane pilots prior to their takeoff and the bravery of those men -- bravery that he only saw in retrospect."I've learned in the years since that they were flying very old and much slower planes than the Japanese," Crawford said. "They must have known their chances of coming back were not very high, yet they were not down about that. Such brave men, doing what they felt they were required to do."According to Crawford, of the three squadrons of torpedo planes, none of the planes in the squadron that embarked from Yorktown in the initial attack on the Japanese fleet returned, and only one Sailor survived. A similar fate also met the torpedo plane squadron from the Hornet. ("Midway Vet Recalls Historic Battle," Navy News, 5/21/09)
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[Retired CAPT John W.] Crawford said that one of his vivid memories is being in a room with the torpedo plane pilots prior to their takeoff and the bravery of those men -- bravery that he only saw in retrospect."I've learned in the years since that they were flying very old and much slower planes than the Japanese," Crawford said. "They must have known their chances of coming back were not very high, yet they were not down about that. Such brave men, doing what they felt they were required to do."According to Crawford, of the three squadrons of torpedo planes, none of the planes in the squadron that embarked from Yorktown in the initial attack on the Japanese fleet returned, and only one Sailor survived. A similar fate also met the torpedo plane squadron from the Hornet. ("Midway Vet Recalls Historic Battle," Navy News, 5/21/09)
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Thank you to all the veterans and all who have supported them in any way. God bless you on this Memorial Day.
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Hey Chuck? Where IS you? Is everything ok?
Hi there! Thanks for the inquiry; I appreciate it. A number of issues have divided my attention. One of the primary ones is our daughter's graduation from Purdue and preparations for her move later this month. And... over the last few days our internet service provider has really been having issues & outages (I think as a result of a company switch-over), so when we have had access, we try to take care of as much business as possible. Hopefully these problems will soon be past tense.
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