"The gesture will exceed any public thanks these now-elderly Americans have received from their own government,..."
Thank you for your service, American Patriots. Thank you.
Earthquake McGoon was a legend who flew with flipflops on his feet (as I recall). Few remember that there were tens of thousands of military being trained at Fort Ord and Fort Polk (and likely other posts) awaiting assignment to Viet Nam. Scores of railroad engineers, some as old as forty, were called up and would have taken over management of the Vietnam railways. Dien Bien Phu ended all that.