Doolittle Raid Final Toast

[bob98366]

Thought about putting this in the Military section of the forum but this certainly deserves wider readership.

http://news.yahoo.com/wwii-doolittle-raiders-final-toast-ohio-010936942.html

[jocko]

Thought about putting this in the Military section of the forum but this certainly deserves wider readership.

http://news.yahoo.com/wwii-doolittle-raiders-final-toast-ohio-010936942.html

read that awhile back. thatis so so cool. Toi think what these young guys did back then is amazing to say the least. I salute them. I was at DC for about a week seeing the sights around Washington and went to the WWII memorial and it just brought tears to my eyes seein all those WWII vets in wheel chairs and there was literaly hundred os them there. I think most of them was with the Honor Flight organization and I had the opportunity to shake alot of WWII vets hands and to just say THANKS. THEY KNEW, some of these ol timers had tears in their eyes when they were wheeled around the monument, again THEY KNEW.Such a great thing to see and then when I looked West and seen that fokking white house and knew what a worthless POS was livin in there, just made my Puke. Therse were great soldiers over att his monument . Not to sure how they could have served under this POS we have now..

Today has not been a good day, as I found out my best dog Monicais ,,pregnant and the culprit is my (was) my prize sheep Bubba :Amflag2: Only thing I can figure is Bubba must have gotton into my 6 year supply of Cialis and just had to do sumpin with it.. I know it was Bubba to for he just smles when he trots by me!!HE KNOWS.

[CJB]

The WWII guys had their own pos...FDR... who had already planned a 4th and 5th term, and who has given us the nanny state as we know it today

[downtownv]

The WWII guys had their own pos...FDR... who had already planned a 4th and 5th term, and who has given us the nanny state as we know it today

Most people today have no clue about the Liberal mind that FDR was all about.
None the less these kids did an incredible job as did all of them in that era. :Amflag2:
I made sure my children were taught what the Greatest generation did, knowing they wouldn't learn about in school, as it doesn't fit the common core curriculum:(

[ripley16]

The Doolittle raid was a great feat of military planning and heroism... no doubt. But it has always frosted me a bit that Doolittle was awarded the MOH and the other guys were not. What did Doolittle do that they didn't? Seems to me that each man did exactly the same action, took the same risk, though some paid a much higher price. The COM should not be used as a publicity stunt. Like I said... it frosts me. Cheapens the integrity of the medal.

[jocko]

I'm sure it probably pissed his fellow p[ilots off to but I am sure they wouldnever tell anyone that. It is what it is, . today we can POST JUDGE some things, but at the time maybe it was the right thing to do. I truly don't think it belittles the medal..
I kinda think back then to America was looking for a Hero Image. Just sayin. That raid IMO was more of an American moral picker upper than anyting else..

[muggsy]

What Doolittle did was to conceive of the mission and train his pilots and crews to accomplish the mission. Other than that, nothing more.

[deadeye]

The WWII guys had their own pos...FDR... who had already planned a 4th and 5th term, and who has given us the nanny state as we know it today

Yes. Then along came Eleanor's lap dog Ike. MacArthur had to be dealt with. Were things really that different back then?