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In reply to the discussion: Now That The Missing Man Formation Has Flown Over Annapolis, The Air Is Still and Calm [View all]Hekate
(90,556 posts)17. My husband made a point of watching that today. He choked up talking to a Repub neighbor...
...this morning -- the neighbor grudgingly admitted that no matter what you thought of McCain, the guy was a hero, he supposed, and suddenly my husband said, "I served in the same war, and we are the same age." And choked up.
It has to be said that my husband joined the Air Force when he was about to be drafted, and had very mixed feelings about that war. But he never had mixed feelings about John McCain.
Godspeed, Senator. Godspeed indeed.
(And now we will resume our regularly scheduled programming at DU, tho admittedly some of us will remain thoughtful.)
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Now That The Missing Man Formation Has Flown Over Annapolis, The Air Is Still and Calm [View all]
peggysue2
Sep 2018
OP
My husband made a point of watching that today. He choked up talking to a Repub neighbor...
Hekate
Sep 2018
#17
My brother and several of my friends enlisted during Viet Nam for the same reasons:
maddiemom
Sep 2018
#27