An Airman's Story

Friends,

I have lost a dear old friend. America has lost a great patriot, who now rests in God`s arms. Seems like it was just yesterday on his 95th birthday, we arranged for him to fly in a dual control P-40...and he flew it over Hamilton Field, Ca. where he had served and flew P-40s in 1940 -41.

As with most stories we hear about this one has some of day to day life in the evolution of what the guys did and what they saw with their experiences. Not all was death and destruction. Such as; seeing your barracks half empty at night after a dangerous mission, or coming home in a Flak ridden airplane ready to explode with fires on-board.

The daily struggle in times or war takes it`s emotional toll. It weights heavily upon their shoulders each day. There is a real need ...

Our old friend "Hap" Halloran made his last flight to Arlington.

Prescott Valley , AZ, hosted a Freedom Rally. Quang Nguyen was asked to speak on his experience of coming to America and what it means. He spoke the following in dedication to all Vietnam Veterans.

Thought you might enjoy hearing what he had to say:

“35 years ago, if you were to tell me that I am going to stand up here speaking to a couple thousand patriots, in English, I'd laugh at you.. Man, every morning I wake up thanking God for putting me and my family in...

Brave, Splendid Fools by William Bacheler

Brave, Splendid Fools is an aviation memoir like no other. Bacheler writes lucidly and with pinpoint detail through the prism of his last flight. In describing his fin...

There  is a veterans group,  Veterans For Peace Santa Barbara, that started putting a cross and candle  for every death in Iraq and Afghanistan down on the beach immediately west of

From Ed Thelen's Nike Missile Web Site

It's a small island, less than 40 square miles, a flat green dot in the vastness of Pacific blue.  

Fly over it and you notice a slash across its north end of uninhabited bush, a long thin line that looks like an overgrown dirt runway.  If you didn't know what it was, you wouldn't ...

An excellent account of the first use of Aerial Reconnaissance (RECON).

Please see the entire post at the Air and Space Museum Website. 

This is an incredible comparison of WWII vs now. Our fathers and grandfathers gave much more than we do now...

.... Most Americans who were not adults during WWII have no understanding of the magnitude of it.