Subject: Fly Boy ?????
From: Mike Marron
Date: 10/23/03 8:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time
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Art Kramer wrote:
Mike Marron wrote:

Well said and I agree wholeheartedly. Perhaps Teddy Roosevelt
summed it up best:

"It's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the
arena......"

There were 11 million of us in that arena.

No, there were only *three* in that arena -- the pilot who survived,
and the turrent gunner and the belly gunner/radioman whom are
both deceased and have been for many decades now. If you're
having a tough time believing what the sole survivor says, I guess
you're just **** outta' luck!

I'm not outa luck at all. I made it through the war just fine, It is those two
airmen who are just **** outa luck as you so graciously expressed it,. Glad I
wasn't on that crew. and what a sole survivor says isn't always taken at face
value. especially by backseaters and other aircrew. And the fact that a man is
an officer, went to flight school and flew missions doesn't mean his actions
are above question. Especially by aircrew thinking of their brothers who never
made it back..



Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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