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Live Feed--Doolittle Raiders Last Toast
USAF.Mil website ^ | 11/9/13 | Rebelbase

Posted on 11/09/2013 5:29:38 PM PST by Rebelbase

Live now. Last toast for the surviving raiders.


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KEYWORDS: doolittle; doolittleraiders
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To: exit82

The original bottle of cognac is being put on the table.

Lt. Col. Cole, one of three Raiders present is breaking the wax seal on the bottle of cognac.


21 posted on 11/09/2013 6:05:31 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: exit82

He’s cutting it open with a knife.

A real man in his nineties!


22 posted on 11/09/2013 6:06:26 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: exit82

The goblets are being presented to the three Raiders present, in preparation for the toast. Each goblet has their name on it.

Goblets belonging to those who have passed on are present, but overturned.


23 posted on 11/09/2013 6:08:07 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: exit82

Lt. Col. Cole (Doolittle’s co-pilot) says a short toast, and the three men drink.

The crowd applauds.


24 posted on 11/09/2013 6:09:45 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Rebelbase

Done deal. Something that has never been seen in public before.


25 posted on 11/09/2013 6:10:05 PM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: exit82

AF cadets retrieve the goblets from the three Raiders, with a salute to each man.

Taps is being played.Crowd is standing.


26 posted on 11/09/2013 6:11:15 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Rebelbase

God is nigh.
Thank you for this.


27 posted on 11/09/2013 6:12:27 PM PST by spankalib ("I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.")
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To: Rebelbase

The Doolittle raid. Wasn’t born yet but still remember. Way to go guys.


28 posted on 11/09/2013 6:13:25 PM PST by FreeperCell
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To: exit82

Hope they call out the names of those Doolittle Raiders who were captured & then executed by the Japs for the crime of carrying out their mission.

“Frater ave atque vale”


29 posted on 11/09/2013 6:13:33 PM PST by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Rebelbase

Thanks for posting this.


30 posted on 11/09/2013 6:13:34 PM PST by Southern Magnolia
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To: Rebelbase

Thanks for posting....we got to watch the final toast...end of an important era...


31 posted on 11/09/2013 6:14:43 PM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: Rebelbase

Day is done,
gone the sun.

From the lakes,
from the hills,
from the sky.

All is well,
safely rest.

God is nigh.


32 posted on 11/09/2013 6:14:43 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

It’s being replayed from the beginning right now if anyone missed it live.


33 posted on 11/09/2013 6:16:40 PM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: exit82

Speaker says this concludes our ceremony, and this concludes the mission.

The final toast has been observed.

Reception at the B-25 in the museum to follow, Raiders will be there as well.

Thank you, Gentlemen, and all who served with you on the raid on Tokyo. You defied the odds, performed your charge with bravery, skill, and fortitude, and electrified an entire country, lifting its morale in the post-Pearl Harbor era when the days were so dark.

May God bless you and keep you, and may we never forget what you did for us.


34 posted on 11/09/2013 6:17:19 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Rebelbase

May God bless all the Doolittle Raiders.

Thank you for posting this.


35 posted on 11/09/2013 6:17:49 PM PST by jazusamo ([Obama] A Truly Great Phony -- Thomas Sowell http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3058949/posts)
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To: Rebelbase
I deeply appreciate your bringing this to the class' attention, this evening. Vicarious though it may be, it was a personal honor to view that ceremony, and to remember what an effect on American morale it was to project air power, on target, when so few believed it to be possible. In it's way, happening when it did, the Tokyo raid was as important as the city-busting, morale crushing atomic bombs dropped on the enemy's Home Islands only a bit more than three years later.

May God grant our nation always have volunteers for dangerous missions.

36 posted on 11/09/2013 6:17:52 PM PST by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: Rebelbase

SALUTE.


37 posted on 11/09/2013 6:18:31 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Rebelbase

BTT

God bless the heroes.


38 posted on 11/09/2013 6:21:45 PM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE
"I can only imagine what the three men think of our country now. Gentlemen, we apologize."

I think your comment may explain why, throughout the entire ceremony, I just cried and cried and cried.

39 posted on 11/09/2013 6:23:07 PM PST by pigsmith (Now I understand why America is not mentioned in the end times.)
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To: Rebelbase
God bless the men that fly and fight.

/johnny

40 posted on 11/09/2013 6:24:07 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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