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Goodbye to the greatest pilot ever
Daily Mail ^
| July 22 2016
| Robert Hardman
Posted on 07/22/2016 3:49:28 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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To: Winniesboy
In the US we'd refer to a man like this as “The Greatest Generation” which is a label coined by one of our well known news anchors (or “news readers”).I suspect that Churchill would agree that the Captain would qualify under “never was so much owed by so many to so few”.
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posted on
07/22/2016 4:04:06 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(What Did Loretta and BillyBob Discuss For 30 Minutes In Phoenix? Grandchildren?)
To: Winniesboy
Wow! He flew a Komet? I bet just planning for that one flight could fill a book!
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posted on
07/22/2016 4:05:17 AM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: Winniesboy
Lord, I feel so unnecessary.
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posted on
07/22/2016 4:06:45 AM PDT
by
ArtDodger
To: Winniesboy
He was a remarkable man in a noteworthy time. Thanks for posting.
TC
To: Pentagon Leatherneck
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posted on
07/22/2016 4:12:11 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true ... and it ticks people off)
To: Winniesboy
Making the first jet landing and takeoff on an aircraft carrier, 1945:
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07/22/2016 4:17:04 AM PDT
by
iowamark
(I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
To: ArtDodger
“Lord, I feel so unnecessary.”
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Yes, humbling, isn’t it? Well said ArtDodger.
And rest in peace Mr. Brown.
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posted on
07/22/2016 4:22:02 AM PDT
by
Paulie
(America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
To: Winniesboy
There was a documentary about him on Netflix I think.
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posted on
07/22/2016 4:27:43 AM PDT
by
dljordan
(WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
To: Winniesboy
There’s that word again. “Boffins.”
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posted on
07/22/2016 4:45:53 AM PDT
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Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Winniesboy
The dude rolled a Lancaster? Wow.
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posted on
07/22/2016 4:47:36 AM PDT
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1rudeboy
To: Eric in the Ozarks
“Boffin” roughly equivalates to “nerd,” in the Queen’s English.
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posted on
07/22/2016 4:49:13 AM PDT
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1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
I thought it might mean “student” or bright person.
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07/22/2016 4:51:21 AM PDT
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Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
In this case, it means “engineer.”
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07/22/2016 4:54:39 AM PDT
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1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
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07/22/2016 4:55:38 AM PDT
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Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: 1rudeboy
“Boffin” roughly equivalates to “nerd,” in the Queen’s English.
I think they’re what my Navy pals called “twidgets”. Tech nerds.
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07/22/2016 4:56:09 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(Socialists are just communists in their larval stage.)
To: 1rudeboy
“Boffin” roughly equivalates to “nerd,” in the Queen’s English.Boffin is more accurately "a very smart technical expert", a scientist or engineer, without the "socially awkward" connotation of "nerd".
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07/22/2016 4:59:48 AM PDT
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PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: Winniesboy
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07/22/2016 5:08:47 AM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: PapaBear3625
But! If the Mail wished to use the term “technical expert,” or some such permutation, it would’ve done so. Thus follows the “nerd” implication.
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07/22/2016 5:11:17 AM PDT
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1rudeboy
To: SkyDancer
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07/22/2016 5:11:32 AM PDT
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wastedyears
(#brexit - Make Britain Great Again)
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