“Sadly, those were the last words the poor man ever spoke. A moment later he was just a small muffled shriek and a smoldering spot on the carpet. Too late he had learned an important lesson.
You really should never fuck with the Thunderbolt Kid.”
Bryson, Bill (2006-10-17). The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir (p. 26). Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
One gentlemen was in his early 90’s. In 1943, he was with the rest of the crew of a B-17 for their 13th mission on a bombing run to Bremen, Germany. Their assignment was to attack a group of submarines stationed in a river. A German ME-109 attack left one of their engines on fire and the pilot determined to continue on the run. Soon thereafter a second engine caught fire as well (#3 & #4) and the pilot ordered the crew to bail out. My story teller was one of the waist gunners and he and the other waist gunner tried to get the door open to jump from the plane but could not budge it due to the air pressure. They finally got it open enough to squeeze through but my man got trapped only half way out the door. Suddenly an explosion freed him from the plane and he found himself flying through the air with B-17 pieces nearby.
After parachuting safely to the ground he was captured and ultimately was improsing in Stalag 17 (remember the movie?), and spent the rest of the war there.
Of the 10 crewmen only four survived the crash.
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Another gentleman told me that he was the unluckiest of all men as he would ultimately serve in three (3) wars (WWII, Korea & Vietnam). I suggested to him that I thought that he was the LUCKIEST soldier of all because he would ultimately come home from three (3) wars.
In 1961, Life Magazine interviewed John F Kennedy and among other conversations asked him for his Top 10 Book list. Notice only one Fiction title in the group. Realize that the first Bond movie was not produced until 1963
~ Montrose by John Buchan
~ From Russia with Love (James Bond Novels) by Ian Fleming
~ Melbourne (Power & Personality Series) by Lord David Cecil
~ Marlborough: His Life and Times, Book One by Winston S. Churchill
~ John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy by Samuel Flagg Bemis
~ The Emergence of Lincoln, Vol. 2: Prologue to Civil War, 1859-1861 by Allan Nevins
~ The price of union by Herbert Agar
~ John C Calhoun American Portrait by Margaret L Coit
~ Byron in Italy by Peter Quennell
~ The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal
Links on individual titles are for my Kindle friends.
“He said that his favorite moment from 2011 came at the end of the
uncanny come-from-behind win over the Bears, when a 59-yard field goal
not kicked by Tim Tebow forced overtime and a 51-yarder not kicked by Tim Tebow won the game.”
From nbcsports.com
http://homes.yahoo.com/blogs/spaces/eminem-detroit-home-seen-2-album-covers-available-224715896.html
Unfortunately a lot of Detroit looks exactly like this and it seems like that is all you ever see from the media. The money left the city for the suburbs in the 60’s and 70’s and all of the king’s mayors and all of the king’s men couldn’t put it all together again. Detroit does have it’s redeeming values, you just have to know where to find them. Hint: It’s not four blocks south of 8 Mile Road on the far east side.
If one vehicle leaves New York at 11a and travels at 50 mph, and a second vehicle leaves Boston at 1p traveling 60 mph, which vehicle will be closer to New York when they meet?
Name the continent that has more college graduates than non-graduates.
