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No it's fine, I was just slightly confused as to why you decided to dedicate this thread to me.I'm not calling anybody out. Forgive me if it seems that way. The passing of each member pains me deeply. This is my online family in a way. My private conversations with Bill were special somehow.
Again, you aren't putting me down!! But also a little understandable. Us younglings are so invested in video games and stuff (Well, I suppose I am as well but whatever) to really care about history and stuff. I feel like I am an outlier to everyone else.Leonidas, the reference to you is merely a result of us bunch of old farts finding a 17 year old interested in the same stuff. A little grand father, older uncle kind of thing. No put down intended.
I wish that there were more of your generation joining as you are the future of this forum after we are long gone from this world.Again, you aren't putting me down!! But also a little understandable. Us younglings are so invested in video games and stuff (Well, I suppose I am as well but whatever) to really care about history and stuff. I feel like I am an outlier to everyone else.
I was hoping that you would get a better understanding of what makes this site into such a family. Bill was from the generation that educated me. Many of my teachers were war veterans from that time. In later years as an adult, they were my co-workers. I worked with one veteran from Merrill's Marauders and another person I had worked with was on the USS Minneapolis at the Battle of Leyte Gulf where he told me that 1/2 of the crew was killed or injured. My employer had served on destroyers during that war. Some of my friends over the years were Korean War veterans and Bill helped me to accept that there was no dishonor in having been 4F during the Vietnam era.No it's fine, I was just slightly confused as to why you decided to dedicate this thread to me.
So have I been officially adopted into this family? And yeah, this forum seems special, and I can't wait to meet you guys even if it is virtual. I've been on the USS Midway when I was younger. Was pretty cool.I was hoping that you would get a better understanding of what makes this site into such a family. Bill was from the generation that educated me. Many of my teachers were war veterans from that time. In later years as an adult, they were my co-workers. I worked with one veteran from Merrill's Marauders and another person I had worked with was on the USS Minneapolis at the Battle of Leyte Gulf where he told me that 1/2 of the crew was killed or injured. My employer had served on destroyers during that war. Some of my friends over the years were Korean War veterans and Bill helped me to accept that there was no dishonor in having been 4F during the Vietnam era.
My pleasure. We also sent the pdf to his next of kin. His son told me there were one or two stories that he hadn't heard before.Thank you for collecting his posts into one document. He is the reason I joined this forum (followed him here when the AAF.com Forum went away). I am saddened to hear of his passing.
My private conversations with Bill were special somehow.