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Originally Posted by Rockfish9
Right on Bruce...I was touched to see the missing man formation flown as he was returned "home"
I am privileged to have met him and shook his hand...I have a summer home in Saco...we were at a family dinner about 10 years ago at Federal Jacks in Kennebunkport. ...President Bush drove his boat to the dock,secret service in tow...
He came in and took his table near us,being a military man myself, I stood up and saluted him (as did everyone at my table including my grandson).... he turned back smiled and shook hands with everyone at the table. ..it was one of those moments you never forget..
Godspeed mr.President you will be missed by many.
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that’s a great story.
i think all that niceness and warmth from him and Barb was totally sincere, not staged at all. just a really decent guy who felt he was spared form death for a reason, and did everything he could
to make the most of his second chance.
If you want to read a very disturbing tale of war crimes, read ‘Flyboys’, about the battle of Chi Chi Jima, where Bush was shot down. the book isn’t about him, it’s about other pilots there who were captured. but it does tell his story, and you will see how close he came to meeting a fate that’s impossible to believe happened to anyone, but it did. Bush came very very close to being tortured to death and eaten, that’s what happened to american
pilots captured at chi chi jima. i don’t know why that’s not better known.
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