Subject: Flyboys (Was: Flyboys?)
From: "Dudley Henriques"
Date: 12/18/03 8:27 AM Pacific Standard Time

Since this book is about old man Bush. I can't imagine that he allowed it
to be
published wihtout going over every detail. What does that tell us?

Not exactly sure what it would say in this instance, but it usually involves
a writer who has approached the subject with an agenda, Could be a soft or
hard agenda...who knows really. But what often happens results in a
"collaboration" of all the interested people with their "agendas" of course
being their first priority. Bush no doubt was tied into the History Channel
and visa versa. Bradley fitted right in with all this. He accompanied both
the History channel and the ex-president back to the island for the TV
"agenda". Next comes the book which I'm sure was reviewed as you have noted.
All in all, at best, it's questionable as pure objectively researched
history. Just too many "agendas" going on here at one time :-))
The real rub in all this is that Bradley could have written a better book
and didn't. The story was there all right, the characters were interesting
and the environment was ripe for something to be done with it. It could have
been a good read if he had only done it more professionally.
Dudley Henriques
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My point is that Bush as a WWII flier was totally familiar with the term "Fly
Boys" to a far greater extent that anyone on this NG who never was in WW II.
After all the term was strictly a WW II Americanism.
While the book was rather poor work, Bush may at least have written off on
the term Fly Boy all the way. Makes sense to me. The only other alternative is
to assume that Bush reviewed the manuscriptt hastily and carelessly, What
think you?

Regards,

Arthur Kramer
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