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Thank you JACK COOK, Randy

Posted by Angry Jim on Mon Dec 22, 2003 09:37:47 PM

In reply top Re: Oh for Pete's sake posted by JACK COOK on Mon Dec 22, 2003 07:35:34 PM



Plain spoken, just like myself.

No doubt I've touched some nerves. However, I'm reminded that hundreds of individuals have worked so very hard, in all kinds of condtions and at all corners of the globe, to recover, restore and preseve the last remnants of these beautiful aircraft. Some have put their own lives and financial futures at risk and many others have lost their lives sharing the same vision. That vision is what this message board is all about.

I meant no disrespect to Randy particularly, who was offering his own disappointment in the loss of the aircraft. They were doing a very difficult and dangerous job. And Randy deserves a thank you for having the fortitude to point out the warbird in the mission briefing. But the cavalier attitude of the officers who dropped the weapon did not sit right with me. And if there was some way, *any way*, in which this aircraft may have been spared (perhaps through mission planning), then I saw no wrong in questioning it. (And had it been a Spit, Hurricane or P-51, I probably would not be alone on my soapbox.)

Bottom line is, another irreplaceable warbird is probably gone for good.





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