For my 1000th, I would like to give you a toast and a tradition to carry on.....To absent friends.

Please write them up guys.... let us remember the ones that have gone before and the ones that have made our lives better.....

Kevin Koch. E Co 227th Aviation, 1st Cavalry Division. He was a hell of a good man.



Aviator  [img]www.milpubs.com/aviator.gif[/img]

I will get the second one...
Martin Caidin...writer, pilot, man of the world.
Many of you will know his writing--"Cyborg"--which became the six-million dollar man. What you don't know is that he holds a world record for piloting with the highest number of wing-walkers on his plane--26 I believe. And it was on a German WWII bomber that he had rebuilt and later gave To Lufthansa.
I could write pages, but let's just say that he was much larger than real life.
I met the man just a couple of years before he died from brain cancer and just talking to him changed my life......trust me...the man worked on project blue book and skeptic is the lighest word that describes his world view.
Here's too ya bub.....

I will drink to your 1000th post! [img]http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/boozer.gif[/img]

Ernest W. Staedtler (1919-1993)
Sgt., US Army, 1941-1945.
Battle of the Bulge, Purple Heart and Marksman

"One of the greatest generation"

Arthur Dalphon, A co 3/75th Infantry. Best friend I've ever had, and an honor to have known.

Shot of Vodka, followed by a Guinness Stout.

To all of those that have or are still serving in our armed forces!
A toast to all of us who think that personal liberty and the Constitution aren't some silly ideas that have lost they're meaning since 1776.

And a toast to Hound for making it to 1K!! [beer]

I salute your 1000, and the CSA [beer]

To the man who made my life complete.

Henry Hudson 1922-2002
my father in law
USArmy 1942-1945
Communications
Phillipines

When he got home, he made my wife.
The saddest day of my recent life was when we buried Henry, back in April.  He left me as "the man of the family"..

And I've got 4 women to be "that man" to.

Please pray for us all.

Thanks,
Tim