Sixty years later he remembers a man he served with

[dflprincess]

I had to drop off some caucus stuff at a political acquittance's home today. I noticed a wall of a WWII era plane and asked her if it was her dad's. As it turned out, it was. Now, this person's dad was killed in Europe during WWII and we fell into a discussion of trying to find people who had served with our dads (mine survived the war but died in '65). Both of us had found websites for our fathers' respective units and had posted messages on them.

Recently, I heard from the daughter of the pilot of my dad's plane (all his crew members have died) and the person I was speaking to had just heard from a guy who had actually served with her dad.

Then we both laughed like hyenas. My dad's name is recognizable to a woman who never met him, but whose father had served with him. This other woman's dad was remembered by a man in his unit SIXTY YEARS AFTER THEY SERVED TOGETHER.

You'd think there would be more than one person who'd remember being in the Guard with the guy who is currently living in the White House.

[UrbScotty]

1. WOW.

Isn't this world small?

[The Blue Knight]

2. I'm suprised Bush hasn't given the names of friends he remembers from serv

[Journeyman]

3. I was in the service 31 years ago. . .

for 590 days. I not only remember at least a dozen guys I was in basic training with for only six weeks, I remember at least that many, if not more, from my four month technical school. And from the only duty station at which I served, I remember at least two or three dozen people, and I'm reasonably certain most of them remember me. I even remember some of the guys' girlfriends and wives. What's more, I remain close friends with one guy, and though we live hundreds of miles apart we try to get together at least once or twice a year.

I don't care how "big" your duty station may be, you come into close contact with a relatively small number of people. The base I was on had over 15,000 assigned to it, but my squadron had only a few hundred, and in the two sections I worked in, there were maybe 50 people. And in the military, where close friendships are formed rather quickly, since most people are far from family and many duty stations are quite isolated, the thought that no one would remember someone who was assigned to a station, even for as short a time as 6 months, is incredulous.

[Mountainman]

5. I can picture the faces of guys I served with in Nam in '67 and '68

Maybe it was because of the war but I have memories of that time like it was just last year. I even remember their names, my mos and my dog tag number.

[Ksec]

4. Bush was a celebrity then

People would have remembered a celebrity.

[benddem]

6. The thing that is really strange is that the the people

who worked on the campaign with him, remember him....from their description...I'd think you'd remember him.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0406/mondo1.php
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—In Alabama, where George W. Bush supposedly was slaving away on Winton "Red" Blount's 1972 U.S. Senate campaign in lieu of National Guard duty, he is remembered by a Blount son as a smartass "cuntsman" from Texas.

Bush Junior, as he was then called, used to come into Blount's campaign office in Montgomery, prop his feet up on a desk, and blab on about how much he'd drunk the night before, according to a detailed article by New Orleans freelance journalist Glynn Wilson on his Progressive Southerner blog (southerner.net/blog/awolbush.html).

:toast:
I also remember the names of people I served with in Basic and in Vietnam. Your memory would be jangled when you saw someone you'd known when they became this famous at any rate.

[pansypoo53219]

7. and the blue haired ladies

working on that campaign called him Texas souffle!

from corrente blog.

[grasswire]

8. I'm beginning to think that his "band of brothers"...

....is torpedoeing him. Not stepping up to vouch for him deliberately, just to shaft him. No pilot who flew with him will step forward. Not one.

He must have been a real prick. Jean Rasmussen, the GOP honcho lady, said that there were so many rumors about him slacking off that she had to phone the guard officers at the armory and tell them to lay off him. She called the complainers "idiots." She said he only had one or two beers at a time.

He must have been a real prick. So I can understand how no one wants to save his arse now.

[grasswire]

9. ALSO.....

....didn't he bed the wife of someone he lodged with there in Alabama? Wasn't that in Minutaglio's or Hatfield's book?

Another reason for those who were there to be angry at him.