09-16-2008, 05:55
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Major James N. Atanasoff
My friend and mentor "Big Jim" Atanasoff passed away this past Sunday. He commanded an A-team in Viet Nam in 1966, A-331 in Loc Ninh as a 1st Lieutenant. Later became the B-team commander. He had fought an illness for 6 years now may he rest in peace. He will be missed.
AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY!
Here is a link to his obituary: http://www.legacy.com/decaturdaily/D...onID=117483365
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09-16-2008, 06:35
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Rest in Peace Major.
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09-16-2008, 06:44
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Rest in Peace Brother
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09-16-2008, 07:18
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RIP
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"May you be a half hour in heaven before the devil knows you’re dead"
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09-16-2008, 08:15
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RIP Sir
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Understand the problem; pull your weight. Appreciate. Be completely honest and trustworthy in all things. - Jeff Cooper
Practice honesty and integrity; rescue the man who has been wronged from the hands of his oppressor; do not exploit the stranger, the orphan, the widow; do no violence; shed no innocent blood in this place. Jer 22:3
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke
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09-16-2008, 08:33
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Rest In Peace Major!
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09-16-2008, 10:43
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RIP Sir....
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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09-16-2008, 15:28
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In pace requiescat, Sir.
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You ask; What is our policy? I will say; “It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.” You ask; What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.-Winston Churchill
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09-16-2008, 18:04
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RIP
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09-16-2008, 19:21
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Rest in Peace, Major Atanasoff.
Pat
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"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -- Frederick Douglass
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09-17-2008, 10:59
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Thanks for the kind words. He was a unique fellow. I remember the story he told of when he met John Wayne at Ft. Benning during the filming of "The Green Berets". They got all the men who had served in SF that were on post for a get together during time of the filming. He stated that when he met "The Duke" that he was just going to say a few words and go on, but John Wayne wanted him to stay because he was the only one he could look "eye to eye" with. So he spent the better part of the evening talking with Wayne. He treasured that time in his life and I don't blame him. Big Jim was what I pictured a model SF soldier to be. Thanks again my friend and rest in peace.
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