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Obviously from his reply to me, his earlier was in jest...humor through sarcasm.

So I owe him an apology.

Second, I have been close friends with some real WWII war heros...not self described, but documented and their actions were as heroic as any wild movie plot you hve ever seen.

But that still does not give any of them a blank check.

And for the record: One of them flew the P-51 and got his picture on Time Magazine cover for landing on a German grass field, picking up his wing man who had been shot down...an impossible feat, but he did it.
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Another flew for the Chinese before Pearl Harbor and quit after that and flew fighters in the Marines.

Another was shot down in his B-17 and came back from a German prison camp weighing , I forgot exactly, but something like 120 lbs...grey headed at 20 something years old.

Another flew B-24s off of England.

Another was a tail gunner on B-7’s. a very dangerous position.

A neighbor shot down piloting a B-17 and never accounted for.

And our attorney for years piloted a B-24 based in England.
My list is quite a bit longer, but enough is enough.

I learned a lot from them and am more than grateful.

All but two are now dead and I lost contact with them.

But everyone my age that I knew is now gone.