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Just spent a couple days with Dan, he's driving back to Florida right now. He was in the top couple I wanted to meet someday, he exceeded my expectations as a quality individual... and I didn't see this thread until this morning...
Words can't express my respect.
Hopefully I can see Dan in Florida sometime soon.
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I bookmarked this so I can pick it up again at Chapter 3. Being a victim of military/government aviation myself it's a great read. Wish I'd read it before meeting the man in the flesh though.
Good stuff Dan, thanks.(Wherever you are right now)
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Bump. I won't miss this thread this time.
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Dan,
Thanks for posting these chapters. More importantly, thanks for your service.
Your story deserves to be published in book form and I think you could find a publisher.
Thanks again!
"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that lightening ain't distributed right." - Mark Twain
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Dan, Thank you for your service. Also for taking the time to write of your experiences so that we may understand just a bit about the sacrifices that were made and the bravery that was displayed.
Kudos on your writing style. Very lively and interesting to read while at the same time getting all the pertinent details across.
Thanks again! I enjoyed every letter of your stories.
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Don't recall the Baker Hotel clearly, old stone 2-3 story downtown Mineral Wells? If so, no. Don't recall the Colonel either but we may have crossed paths.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Dan you have a style of writing that works for me. I can not stop reading this. I am however sorry you had to live it.
Bear
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Just read it for the 7th time. Bump for the new guys.
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Just read this in one sit and it needs to go up top for all to see as mandatory reading. Yours was a finer generation and makes me somewhat embarrassed for mine! Much thanks.
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You are welcome, but I would suggest that warriors are cut from the same cloth and forged in the same fire. It is a timeless brotherhood and your generation is brimming with heroes, some known and many unaware of their own courage.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Dan, I'm not much of a book reader but I spent the better part of the morning reading your story. I could not put it down. I'm 69 so what you wrote about brought back lots of memories. Served my time with Uncle Sam but don't have the tales to tell like I just read. Thanks for your service and the ability to write.
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What a read. I was trying to keep up with the word pictures, sounds and smells you were putting in my mind.
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Thank you, Dan.
I don't think "enjoy" is the proper word for this, maybe "illuminate" works better, I dunno. I was glad to read it, and even happier that you came home in mostly one piece. I would encourage you to go ahead and contact a publisher, I'd like to read more, as would we all. I was a little too young for Vietnam, but I enlisted in '77, and spent four years in the 82nd, reading all the novels I could round up (we'd pass them around the barracks). Thanks again for your service, and by all means, if you can scrounge up the time, please write the book.
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You are welcome, but I would suggest that warriors are cut from the same cloth and forged in the same fire. It is a timeless brotherhood and your generation is brimming with heroes, some known and many unaware of their own courage. Eloquent brevity, Se�or. I think that Ken's "make every word count" advisory is something that you exemplify, on a day in, day out basis. Semper Brevity GTC
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Awesome story and very well told BD!
I'm embarrassed it took me this long to find it.
As an author, as well as a pilot, sir, you excel.
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Until Tyrant Obama, LBJ was the worst president ever for sending our guys to Vietnam while preventing them from even trying to win and because of his war on poverty.
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