Bill Whittle

Best use of a Musket I have seen in quite a while.

I did too. But I also felt it was pretty heavily slanted toward the "futility of war" aspect, and less on what was the popular mood at the time, namely, it was necessary.

I see, that makes sense. I was glad that it spoke the truth about the bombs though, I was worried how they would handle it.

ALso, I was researching the Lemay bombing leaflet, and I found that of the three versions of 2106 printed (I think it was 2106). Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the orginal target of the second bomb were not named on the pamphlet. I also learned that the leaflet was for a conventional bambing raid. What do you know about it?

My Dada was a WWII Vet. He served in Italy in the Army as an Aircraft Mechanic working on P-38's at a Photo Recon Group. In his later years we would have many conversations about the war. I always sensed a little bit of survivors guilt because he was trained to be a Bomber Mechanic and should have been assigned to a Bombing Group but was instead ... See Moreassigned as a replacement to the Photo Recon Group.

His first job in the group was to be the Mechanic on a P-51, which they had stolen, that was the base commanders toy. He didn't even have a manual for it. He tells the story of working on it and hooking up the spark plugs in the wrong order. Fortunately there was also a Brtish Spitfire Fighter Wing on the same base and the Brits were able to get him sorted out as the P-51 used the same Rolls Royce Merlin Power Plant.

I would be interested to hear your response Bill. I still live here because the bones of what California really is still exists: the pristine deserts, the jeffery pines in the San Gabriel Mountains, the Redwoods, the rocky beaches, the Gold Country and the Sierras. Real pioneers came here and carved out a paradise. It's my state and the freaks and greedy sods can't have it.

Great point Shelley. Tom, I grew up in South Florida. This is simply the best climate, and the prettiest terrai that I have ever seen. It has to be, because it is populated by some of ther dumbest people, and has the worst government, of any state in the nation.

I believe I have just been complimented and insulted at the same time ;-)

No, Bill is right. Our state is insolvent, our government is corrupt and we celebrate the life of a dead pedophile because he could really sing and dance well.

Go out into the wilderness and it's easy to make all the idiots seem irrelevant in the great scheme of things.

I thought I'd seen this before,But this is like, Redux and expanded

Sent this to a friend in Afghanistan; I think he liked it, I know I sure did.

Bless you for it Richard. We need to sit down soon.

Any time any where my friend.