Subject: Bush flew fighter jets, but never over VIETNAM.
From: ojunk (Steve Mellenthin)
Date: 7/11/2004 9:32 AM Pacific Standard Time
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The man didn't want to fight. End of story.



Arthur Kramer

Art, I am pretty sure that almost non of us of tha era wanted to fight. I am
also sure that few of your generation really wanted to either. But we all
served. I am just as certain that some of your generation were more than
willing to serve in combat but didn't end up there. My dad volunteered for
but
was washed out of pilot training because of color blindness. He ended up
spending the war at Laredo TX working on high altitude research for the the
B-29 development.



I can't speak for a generation, but in 1942 my greatest fear was that the war
would end before I got there and I would miss the adventure of a lifetime. And
many of us felt exactly that way back then. It didn't end and I got there. But
I was very young and idealistic back then..But if I had it to do it all over
again, I would do it the same way.



Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer