This was a time when character counted.
Case in point- George Herbert Walker Bush, born into a wealthy family, he enrolled in the Navy right after the attack on Pearl Harbor and turning eighteen- skipping college. He became the youngest fighter pilot in the Pacific Theater. He did not dodge service by (falsely) claiming bone spurs like the current president.
Today September 2, 1944, piloting a torpedo bomber and attacking radio towers on the Japanese held island of Chi Chi Jima, Lieutenant Bush's plane- second in the attack on a facility heavily defended with anti-aircraft guns, was hit. Bush continued the attack, released his weapons and turned the plane out to sea. He yelled "hit the silk" to his two crewmembers. Neither survived. Bush was rescued by the Submarine USS Finback and his first words were "happy to be aboard." He spent a month on the sub as it continued its patrol.
Reflecting on his experience decades later, Bush simply stated that there was not a day that went by that he didn't think of his friends and crewmembers who did not make it.
But this was a man cut from a different cloth, and from a time when character counted.
Before the world ever heard of him, George Herbert Walker Bush was a hero and a great American.
3 comments:
WWII was a time before the legal profession, including the judiciary, became garbage. President Trump brought the fight to lawyers like Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris for the American People, and won. That is an accomplishment no one else could do. President Trump has my respect on that basis.
Really 4:51? Out of everyone in this great county of ours, the only possible person who was capable of bringing the fight to corruption was... a corrupt real estate developer and reality tv host? Someone whose name was synonymous with greed before he ever entered politics? Get serious.
Let’s just focus that one was a coward with no dedication to his country who used wealth and a fake condition to dodge service and the other volunteered as soon has he turned 18, sought out combat and bravely acted when under fire to complete his mission. The differences are as simple and plain as that.
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