In part, because of the book, I became a pilot, a successful business man and no longer the black sheep of the family.

In 1986 I saw Pappy Boyington at the annual Experimental aircraft fly in. He was at a desk signing his book. At the time he was all alone. I wanted to go up and thank him, but I was too in awe of this great man. I did not go and tell him how much he had done for me through his book. For that I shall never forgive myself. Not for not having met him, but for not letting him know how much good he did for young men like myself trying to find themselves.

NOW:–TO YOU YOUNG STUDENTS AT THE U OF W

I don’t want to rag on you for what you do or do not know. I just want you to ask yourself a simple question—

You say you don’t want to honor a guy who killes people, a rich white guy? Forget all that.

Can you honor a young man sitting alone, ALL ALONE, in an airplane over the pacific ocean at 20,000′, knowing that he has to kill or be killed, knowing that if he is shot down, he will probably drown or be eaten by sharks? His country asked him to do that. Not once, but day after day! for his fellow countrymen, for his county, and yes, for you. He, and 1000,s others did the same.

Honor him. Honor them. Know it or not, you owe them, you owe him. (BIGTIME!)

So—even though it may be a little late,

THANKS PAPPY, YOU DID GOOD, VERY GOOD!

A 15 YEAR OLD BOY, WHO REMEMBERS.

GBA, this is not about who pays for things, it is about who you honor and why. The whekps and punks at the U of Washington don’t know squat. They are all running for the heat generated by their outspoken ignorance.

To you I suppose it is ok to rob the student treasury to make Michael Moore richer and fatter, but not to honor POOR People who aren’t all white because you and your ilk baum your consciences with calling him a rich white man. For your information, Boyington was poor and part Sioux indian.

So a decision to collect from the alumni is always better than robbing the schools treasury.

Had the alumni first put up the cash this would not even be an issue.

Now, Greg Boyington is no candidate for saint, but most warriors are not. Peacetime is not an environment where they florish. Still, the students did him a dishonor in the way they debated and acted upon the memorial proposal.

I doubt many here have EVER read Boyington’s book or even knows what he looked like. The TV series about the “Black Sheep” was a distortion of Boyington and the “Sheep”. I doubt that anyone debating this even knew that Boyington lived long enough to actually appear in a cameo role on the series as a Marine General in ONE episode.

Are you still under house arrest for the crime of not knowing where you are?

What will you be behind when these Islamo pukes show up at your high school and burn it down? What part of being behind has you so confused?

- Bang

Maybe I have it wrong, but were women subject to the draft? Granted I was a kid, but I remember it differently.

- Bang