OT - RIP George H.W. Bush

lkapigian

^^^^^is Cool ^^^^^^^^^^

jaydub58

For a quite short, and extremely scary anecdote about him, read James Brady's 
Fly Boys.  It's about the US Navy's assault on the island of Chi Chi Jima.
41 was a Naval pilot in that one.

frazzdaddy

jaydub58 said:

For a quite short, and extremely scary anecdote about him, read James Brady's 
Fly Boys.  It's about the US Navy's assault on the island of Chi Chi Jima.
41 was a Naval pilot in that one.

A must read. An amazing insight into the brutal war in the Pacific.

CTMike

frazzdaddy said:

jaydub58 said:

For a quite short, and extremely scary anecdote about him, read James Brady's 
Fly Boys.  It's about the US Navy's assault on the island of Chi Chi Jima.
41 was a Naval pilot in that one.

A must read. An amazing insight into the brutal war in the Pacific.

I read Fly Boys a couple years back - great book. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Amazing husband, father, and President.  I was young when he served as President.  Reading about him now, wow, he was a true American hero and patriot.

Reading about his love of family and his daughter Robin was very emotional and eye opening.

WeberWho

I found out President Bush training plane from the army is a stone throw away from my parents house. Apparently the President even autographed it at one point. 

GATraveller

Bob Dole (95) being lifted out of his wheelchair so he could give his final salute. A dying breed! 

DMW

https://spectator.us/george-hw-bush-man-full/

lousubcap

An interview describing when he was shot-down: Very much worth your time.

https://news.usni.org/2018/12/01/george-h-w-bush-naval-institute-interview?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=0d26d2472e-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-0d26d2472e-230648085&mc_cid=0d26d2472e&mc_eid=da66ed6ca4 

DoubleEgger

Thanks for sharing Cap 

YukonRon

lousubcap said:

An interview describing when he was shot-down: Very much worth your time.

https://news.usni.org/2018/12/01/george-h-w-bush-naval-institute-interview?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=0d26d2472e-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-0d26d2472e-230648085&mc_cid=0d26d2472e&mc_eid=da66ed6ca4 

Thank you.

thetrim

GATraveller said:

Bob Dole (95) being lifted out of his wheelchair so he could give his final salute. A dying breed! 

Bob Dole is still alive?     Great!

DMW

I’m not crying, it’s just dusty in here. 

DoubleEgger

43 did a phenomenal job 

thetrim

SEN Simpson was great too.  I couldn’t watch much of 43’s speech.  Fahkin’ work. 

northGAcock

I am traveling in DC....traffic a bit messed up (more so than normal). 

lkapigian

DoubleEgger said:

43 did a phenomenal job 

Absolutely Wonderful 

frazzdaddy

@DoubleEgger yes he did. Watching it with SWMBO now. @DMW ,It's dusty here too.

Battleborn

In was stationed on board USS Iwo Jima for the first part of my naval career. In 04 or 05 we were in Portland, ME for a Fleet Week. One of the days we were there, they shut down the Quarterdeck while I was trying to get off the ship. I was kinda p!ssed. After a short wait, I heard 41 being piped on board in naval tradition. 
The man drove his personal boat to the dock, moored it right behind the ship and came on board.
I found out shortly after that the SS let the Officer of the Deck know of 41's arrival about 10 minutes before hand.

Fred19Flintstone

I couldn’t have planned this if I tried.

DoubleEgger

Just watched some of the Bush train videos. That’s pretty awesome. Very cool train. A great way for people to gather along the tracks to pay respect. 

BGEChicago

DoubleEgger said:

Just watched some of the Bush train videos. That’s pretty awesome. Very cool train. A great way for people to gather along the tracks to pay respect. 

I'm kind of curious about the train, very cool indeed. Is the train a tradition or is it specif to H.W.? If so why?   

DMW

BGEChicago said:

DoubleEgger said:

Just watched some of the Bush train videos. That’s pretty awesome. Very cool train. A great way for people to gather along the tracks to pay respect. 

I'm kind of curious about the train, very cool indeed. Is the train a tradition or is it specif to H.W.? If so why?   

Google better.

Hairless_Hand

Washington monument last night with all of the flags at half staff for 41. 

BGEChicago

DMW said:

BGEChicago said:

DoubleEgger said:

Just watched some of the Bush train videos. That’s pretty awesome. Very cool train. A great way for people to gather along the tracks to pay respect. 

I'm kind of curious about the train, very cool indeed. Is the train a tradition or is it specif to H.W.? If so why?   

Google better.

Hey pal, just trying to contribute. I honestly think it's really awesome that America does things like this and wanted to comment. Thank you for your in depth criticism, so deep and profound!  I'll assume this message you sent so late last night was the booze talking, your really can't be this much of an internet troll / A-hole can you? 

DMW

• DMW December 6

  You aren't very smart, are you?

DoubleEgger

@BGEChicago. Here’s a video and article about the locomotive and train cars. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o4eBy1Y4Cd

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/06/674075619/on-final-train-trip-bush-will-travel-the-countryside-that-he-loved-so-much

DoubleEgger

DialSquare

Downtown Dallas this morning with the Sixth Floor Museum in the foreground. 

Botch

Gotta say, I could probably google the answer to every question I've posted on this forum, but that loses any social interaction and is like computer dating instead of going to a party.
Just sayin'.  

BGEChicago

DoubleEgger said:

@DoubleEgger thanks for the post and information, I was born in 1970 and I had time today to  research, I think the last time they had the "train" was 1969, thus my question. I had just never seen it before. Again, tanks for the information.