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"Mike Marron" wrote in message om... "Dudley Henriques" wrote: Life is indeed strange sometimes. I was a demonstration pilot flying a P51D back in the sixties. I know that you couldn't care less Dud, but while you were having a good ol' time flying your P-51, posing for photographs and signing autographs for throngs of adoring fans, back in the sixties Dad was heading off to 'Nam in a chartered DC-8 waving goodbye to his pregnant wife and three boys while the entire family was fighting back tears and wondering if we'll ever see each other again. I don't know what the hell is psychologically wrong with you Marron, but this is a totally ignorant, unwarranted and unnecessary post that goes so far beyond the limits of normality that I just have to respond to it. How dare you assume that I or anyone else for that matter wouldn't care about someone leaving their family and going to war. I have spent my entire life devoted to making the airplanes our pilots take to war strong enough and good enough to bring them back to the families they left at home, on several occasions, at the risk of my life! It has also been my unfortunate duty on more than one occasion to be called in by these families to speak at the funerals of several of these pilots; close, close, personal friends. I don't need this crap from you. Nor does anyone else on this Newsgroup. I would STRONGLY suggest to you Marron, that although you have great cause to be proud of your father for the work he did in SEA, that you refrain from EVER AGAIN using someone the way you have used me in this post to make a statement about him. There's absolutely no reason for this behavior, nor is there ANY excuse for you to use me or anyone else in a negative manner like this as a segway into a statement about your father. I don't know what the F**k you think I did all my life, but I'll have you know that flying demonstrations in the 51 was a HOBBY for me, NOT a vocation! My WORK during my tenure in aviation was directly related to design and performance of the airplanes that people like your father took to war. I would even go so far as to tell you that my work in this field might very well have been responsible on any given occasion for bringing him back! Dudley Henriques International Fighter Pilots Fellowship Commercial Pilot/ CFI Retired For personal email, please replace the z's with e's. dhenriquesATzarthlinkDOTnzt |
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Mike:
Did your Dad ever put you OVER his knee? Maybe that's the problem. VL |
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.perhaps they'll _both_ crash and burn?
Gord: No they won't. They're flying on Helium. VL |
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