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Bush’s commander, dad wrote each other
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Posted on 09/17/2004 6:50:48 PM PDT by jseth
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posted on
09/17/2004 6:50:48 PM PDT
by
jseth
To: jseth; PhiKapMom
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posted on
09/17/2004 6:55:00 PM PDT
by
MrChips
(ARD)
To: jseth
"That a major general in the Air Force would take interest in a brand new Air Force trainee made a big impression on me," then Texas Rep. George Bush wrote to Maj. Gen. G.B. Greene Jr., commander of the Lackland Air Force Base Military Training Center, on Sept. 11, 1968. Hmmm... was it my imagination, or were the Rats planning to run ads attacking Bush for saying he was in the Air Force as well as the Guard?
It seems that this Air Force General believed W was in the Air Force.
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posted on
09/17/2004 6:55:48 PM PDT
by
ambrose
(http://www.swiftvets.com)
To: jseth
Oooooooooh! Writing a thank-you-note is a Bad Thing!
There was a day when adults sent polite letters to each other as a matter of course. Now, it appears it's a federal crime.
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posted on
09/17/2004 6:57:06 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(I have two words for John Kerry: "YYYEEEEAAARRGGGHHHH!!!!")
To: jseth
George HW Bush is very well known for writing thank you notes! Thousands each year when President and in public life.
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posted on
09/17/2004 6:57:53 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(There)
To: jseth
What? No letter from the CO asking Rep. Bush about Dubya's favorite cereal or what his favorite comic books are so they can make him feel more at home at Lackland?
Well, I'm sure Someone In Texas is slaving over a hot keyboard right now and Dan will break that story when it's time...
To: ambrose
That sentence stuck out to me as well.
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posted on
09/17/2004 6:59:17 PM PDT
by
jseth
To: jseth
What's amazing is the media tries to portray the letter from the General to 41 as somehow being sinister...
Yet, if the General wrote to 41 to say "Your son is a bad recruit and won't obey my orders"... can you imagine the hysterical reaction?
The bias is incredible.
And sickening.
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posted on
09/17/2004 7:04:16 PM PDT
by
ambrose
(http://www.swiftvets.com)
To: All
And regardless of what the letters say, which isn't much, we should hold W. responsible for this ... why, exactly?
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posted on
09/17/2004 7:19:56 PM PDT
by
Hank All-American
(Free Men, Free Minds, Free Markets baby!)
To: ambrose
I guess my son got special treatment too, since we got a letter from his commanding officer saying what a great job he was doing. They send them to the parents if the soldier is not married, otherwise to the spouse, whenever the soldier is doing a good job.
The press doesn't want to protray these letters as common curtesy when the soldier is doing well. My son was an enlisted man, and in the infantry.
To: FR_addict
I guess my son got special treatment too, since we got a letter from his commanding officer saying what a great job he was doing. They send them to the parents if the soldier is not married, otherwise to the spouse, whenever the soldier is doing a good job.
The press doesn't want to portray these letters as common curtesy when the soldier is doing well. My son was an enlisted man, and in the infantry.
To: jseth
This letter was so innocuous that it didn't end up in the fifteen-gallon trashcan at midnight.
To: jseth
When I was about to "graduate" from Air Force Officer Training School (OTS) at Lackland in 1964, we were given a questionnaire that asked if we had any VIPs in the family - General Officers, GS-16s or above, members of the U.S. Congress who might attend graduation. I'm sure the MGEN at Lackland wrote to all U.S. Representatives of OTs - in order to curry favor for the Air Force.
G.H.W. Bush had his secretary (LTC Lillian's secretary should know her name as she told Dan that GW would call her by his dad's secretary's name) answer with a folksy response.
An aside:I once had a secretary whose husband had been an E-9 in DC and she was the personal secretary for a member of Congress. Based on that experience, I would bet that all GW's dad did was sign the letter - his secretary no doubt prepared it in the normal course of doing business at that level.
To: ambrose
>> It seems that this Air Force General believed W was in the Air Force.
What could an Air Force Major General possibly know about the Air Force? :)
To: jseth
Lets keep this in the news. This attention to Bush's service in 1972 and 1973 will soon be contrasted with what Kerry was doing in 1972 and 1973, i.e., meeting in Paris with the enemy and sitting in meetings where the assasination of congressmen and senators was being voted upon.
Yeah, I think George can take the heat. Can Kerry?
Go Swiftvets!
To: jseth
<<
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon Friday released more documents on President Bushs Vietnam-era Air National Guard Service, including a letter from his then-congressman father George Bush thanking a general for taking interest in a brand new Air Force trainee.
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This what really annoys me about the MSM. This is their subtle bias at work. The article tells the whole story, including the fact that GHWB's letter was in response to the commanders letter, but the opening sentence, which is what most folks are going to read, implies special treatment. They may as well have added "nudge, nudge, wink, wink" to the end of it.
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posted on
09/17/2004 8:01:30 PM PDT
by
MagnumRancid
(I need a new screen name - its left over from my Doom/Quake playing days.)
To: jseth
Gee, the last paragraph of the last document mentions his citations. The ones the DUmmies were claiming he didn't earn and was wearing undeservedly in that ancient picture. FU DU.
To: jseth
I have been waiting for more than a year to see that letter get out to the public. I had a great conversation with President Bush's TI TSgt Onaki last year. Some wonderful stories from him and even more stories from members of his flight G-168, 3724th Basic Military Training Squadron. They are all proud of him as the first enlisted airman to become the Commander-in-Chief. So am I.
To: jseth
Whoa! A commander communicating with one of the troops parents? Simply unheard of!
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posted on
09/17/2004 8:31:56 PM PDT
by
jwalsh07
(Rather Lied, MSM Died! Long live FreeRepublic and the Blogs!)
To: jseth
As a First Sergeant of a training Company at Ft. Dix, NJ in 88-90 I received many letters from parents of young soldiers who were amazed at what a little discipline and self confidence had done for their kids. My wife, a Basic Training Drill Sergeant got even more.
Sure hope none of those young soldiers ever run for office as Republicans, those letters could come back to haunt them.
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posted on
09/17/2004 9:20:06 PM PDT
by
Feckless
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