01-11-2011, 10:13
|
#1
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Fayetteville
Posts: 13,080
|
Boulder WWII hero Bill Bower dies at 93 Read more: Boulder WWII hero Bill Bower dies
Boulder WWII hero Bill Bower dies at 93
Read more: Boulder WWII hero Bill Bower dies at 93 - Boulder Daily Camera http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_17061321#ixzz1AkBJvTiN
DailyCamera.com
"Col. William Marsh "Bill" Bower, the last surviving pilot of "Doolittle's Raiders" who bombed Japan in 1942, died Monday at his home in south Boulder.
He was 93 and "lived a completely full life," said his son Jim Bower............."
Down to five now - the reunion is getting smaller and smaller
http://www.doolittleraider.com/survivors.htm
|
|
Pete is offline
|
|
|
01-11-2011, 10:23
|
#2
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Pineland, Northern Province
Posts: 600
|
Rest in Peace COL Bower...
__________________
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
"The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist."
Vannevar Bush
|
|
uplink5 is offline
|
|
|
01-11-2011, 10:24
|
#3
|
|
RIP Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: The Ozarks
Posts: 10,072
|
I recently watched an outstanding 3-part documentary on the Doolittle heroes.
God bless and RIP.
__________________
"There you go, again." Ronald Reagan
|
|
Dusty is offline
|
|
|
01-11-2011, 10:31
|
#4
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
Posts: 24,806
|
RIP, Sir.
Thank you for your service.
You will not be forgotten.
TR
__________________
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
|
|
The Reaper is offline
|
|
|
01-11-2011, 10:52
|
#5
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Idaho
Posts: 1,208
|
Rest In Peace, Sir.
Thank you for your service.
__________________
"It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live." -Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
|
|
TOMAHAWK9521 is offline
|
|
|
01-11-2011, 10:57
|
#6
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Occupied Pineland
Posts: 4,701
|
Rest in Peace Sir. Thank you for your service.
__________________
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
|
|
Peregrino is offline
|
|
|
01-11-2011, 11:05
|
#7
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: USA-Germany
Posts: 1,574
|
Rest In Peace and Thank you
__________________
"Men Wanted: for Hazardous Journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.” -Sir Ernest Shackleton
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” –Greek proverb
|
|
akv is offline
|
|
|
01-11-2011, 11:25
|
#8
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 2,952
|
Rest In God's Peace Col Bower.
|
|
Red Flag 1 is offline
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 14:31.
|
|
|
Hybrid Mode
