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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
I stumbled across this recent interview of Chuck Yeager on a PBS station
in West Virginia. Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIeiMNjv0BQ Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0tku2b-Xms Not a good one for Yeager. He comes off as being quite arrogant and not a little condescending. I'd heard rumblings from time to time that he's sort of a prick, but until now had not seen or heard anything concrete. I think it is sad. |
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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
"Snidely" wrote in message ... I stumbled across this recent interview of Chuck Yeager on a PBS station in West Virginia. Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIeiMNjv0BQ Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0tku2b-Xms Not a good one for Yeager. He comes off as being quite arrogant and not a little condescending. I'd heard rumblings from time to time that he's sort of a prick, but until now had not seen or heard anything concrete. I think it is sad. Thanks for the links. I enjoyed the interview. I thought it wasn't as bad as you perceived it to be. It might be that I've been around enough of the no-nonsense, "this-is-just-the-way-it-is" types that the style or lack of style doesn't always interfere with the message. I remember my Dad and some of his kin sound like Yeager. They're from the area around 50 miles S.E. of Hamlin. I think Yeager's delivery is typical. -- Tom |
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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
There are those that we admire for their achievements, and those that we
admire for their personality. If those two come together in one person that is a big plus. But none the less, having done it all very well and masterly tends to lead to a no nonsense approach to life. That sometimes comes off as arrogant when it is merely life at a higher plane of accomplishment, one for which no apology is necessary. |
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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
Clark wrote:
George wrote in news:FKcYh.5915$rO7.3155 @newssvr25.news.prodigy.net: There are those that we admire for their achievements, and those that we admire for their personality. If those two come together in one person that is a big plus. But none the less, having done it all very well and masterly tends to lead to a no nonsense approach to life. That sometimes comes off as arrogant when it is merely life at a higher plane of accomplishment, one for which no apology is necessary. That's one perspective. Never forget that it takes a team and frequently luck is a factor. It's important enough that I'll type it again: it takes a team. Yeager never mentioned the folks that made it possible. That is a serious omission. there may be no "i" in "team", but try spelling it without "me"...... redc1c4, (and what got edited out of the interview before you saw it? %-) -- "Enlisted men are stupid, but extremely cunning and sly, and bear considerable watching." Army Officer's Guide |
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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
I have had several one-on-one conversations with him, and can report that
you are incorrect. He is not "sort of a prick." He is 100% prick. As another poster noted, he gives no credit to anyone other than himself, with the possible exception of recognizing Bob Hoover as a good test pilot. BJC "Snidely" wrote in message ... I stumbled across this recent interview of Chuck Yeager on a PBS station in West Virginia. Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIeiMNjv0BQ Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0tku2b-Xms Not a good one for Yeager. He comes off as being quite arrogant and not a little condescending. I'd heard rumblings from time to time that he's sort of a prick, but until now had not seen or heard anything concrete. I think it is sad. |
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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
On 27-Apr-2007, "Byron Covey" wrote: He is not "sort of a prick." He is 100% prick. And he's a bigot. It's a shame to see that someone who was promoted up to Brigadier General in the USAF could still hold such attitudes. Two years ago at EAA/Oshkosh, my wife and I went to see him give a talk titled "Best of the Best", expecting it to be a motivational speech. He spent the first 10 minutes in a racist rant justifying locking up Japanese-Americans in concentration camps during WW2. We were more than a little bit offended. Several people of apparent Japanese descent got up and left. When he finished this rant, we were disappointed that a number of people applauded Yeager. We stayed awhile longer, and he began telling war stories about being shot down and evading capture during the war. His language was foul, and he came across as an arrogant asshole to us. We got up and left a few minutes later. I won't bother seeing him speak again. Scott Wilson |
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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
On his way to my killfile, "Snidely" trolled:
We were absolutely justified in locking up Japanese during the war, to suggest otherwise is retarded. Unlike the so-called "wars" the US has been in since then, WWII was a fight to the death. When up against a capable and ruthless opponent that thinks of all others as sub-human, there is no room for any PC bull****. Those that applauded that day understand this. Any Japanese (or anybody else) that are offended by this need to read some history about how they (the Japanese) waged war at that time. Our locking up a few people was absolutely harmless in every imaginable respect in comparison. Don't believe it? Start reading. As good a place to start as any is what is now called "the rape of Nanking". 1: There is a considerable difference between "Japanese citizens living in US territory" and "American citrizens of Japanese ancestry." Interning foreign nationals during time of war is legal, and obviously a good idea. Detaining American citizens on the basis of their ancestry is neither legal nor a good idea. (And I don't recall that any of my Prussian ancestors were locked up during either of the World Wars.) 2: Even at the time the internment was condemned by various American citizens, as both unconstitutional and a waste of resources. That includes military commanders, who didn't want to tie up soldiers in guarding American citizens, didn't want to spend the war twiddling their thumbs as prison guards, and remembered that they'd taken oaths to defend the Constitution. 3: Exactly how many of the internees were involved in the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, the wholesale murder of Chinese citizens after the Doolittle raid, or any other atrocity? For that matter, do you know how many Japanese-American internees were locked up? 4: You *do* realize that the concept of collective guilt is one which was embraced by the Axis powers when they executed innocent people in reprisals? And that the US specifically rejected that concept when we signed the Geneva conventions? 5: "PC bull****"? Idiots like you always whine about "political correctness" when they're tagged as the ignorant bigots they are. --Bill Thompson |
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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
Look! A PC idiot! The truth always draws them out. Probably loses sleep
that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked, too. |
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An Interview With Chuck Yeager
I served in Vietnam with loyal Americans who spent WWII in internment camps.
Their parents were second generation Americans who owned orchards in California, which they were required to sale at a great financial loss. Like them I am a third generation American with German ancestry. Why were they interned and I allowed a normal youth? Were they less of an American then I? If so, why? Bye the way, one of my friends with Japanese ancestry also spent time in the Hanoi Hilton. When his mother was interviewed by the news media she stated "you know, this is the second time he has been a prisoner of war. The first time was in Idaho." I am saddened that there are people who still don't see the injustice in the mass internment of west coast US Citizens with Japanese ancestry. Wayne CDR USN (Retired) "Snidely" wrote in message ... We were absolutely justified in locking up Japanese during the war, to suggest otherwise is retarded. Unlike the so-called "wars" the US has been in since then, WWII was a fight to the death. When up against a capable and ruthless opponent that thinks of all others as sub-human, there is no room for any PC bull****. Those that applauded that day understand this. Any Japanese (or anybody else) that are offended by this need to read some history about how they (the Japanese) waged war at that time. Our locking up a few people was absolutely harmless in every imaginable respect in comparison. Don't believe it? Start reading. As good a place to start as any is what is now called "the rape of Nanking". wrote: And he's a bigot. It's a shame to see that someone who was promoted up to Brigadier General in the USAF could still hold such attitudes. Two years ago at EAA/Oshkosh, my wife and I went to see him give a talk titled "Best of the Best", expecting it to be a motivational speech. He spent the first 10 minutes in a racist rant justifying locking up Japanese-Americans in concentration camps during WW2. We were more than a little bit offended. Several people of apparent Japanese descent got up and left. When he finished this rant, we were disappointed that a number of people applauded Yeager. We stayed awhile longer, and he began telling war stories about being shot down and evading capture during the war. His language was foul, and he came across as an arrogant asshole to us. We got up and left a few minutes later. I won't bother seeing him speak again. Scott Wilson |
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