Subject: Lot of noise being made about Purple Hearts
From: "Jay T. Beatty"
Date: 8/14/2004 9:33 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: k.net


"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 01:08:34 +0100,
wrote:

It's easy to get them. You've got to be relatively incompetent at your
job. To get multiples indicates either incredible bravery (coupled
with incompetence) or a high level of accident-proneness.


Thats a bull**** statement, but since your an ex-fighter pilot, I can see
how you would think that.


Bull**** is right. Casualtis are largley the resilt of statistical happenstance
and chaos theory. Men are often killed by wild bursts of gunfire that has
nothing to do with competance. The idea that " I survived because I'm smart and
the other guy died because he is stupid" is the ultimate height of arrogance.
Go to my website and click on "One went down" to see a B-26 turned into a
flaming coffin with my friends inside. Were they incompetant? What
bulll****. What total bull****.


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