Parallel Lives, Shared History
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gafinfansubscriberOPI got this from a Service group I've joined, its about WWII flyers, a great story. Hope y'all will enjoy:
http://navy.togetherweserved.com/usn/dispatches/0215.html#article1
Herb Heilbrun and John Leahr were twenty-one when the United States entered WWII. Herb became an Army Air Forces B-17 bomber pilot. John flew P-51 fighters. Both were thrown into the brutal high-altitude bomber war against Nazi Germany, though they never met because the Army was rigidly segregated - only in the air were black and white American fliers allowed to mix.
Both came safely home but it took a chance meeting 20 years ago when the two retired salesmen met at a reunion of the Tuskegee Airmen in Cincinnati.
This is the only thing I’ve learned: There’s only us. There’s no them. Despots and authoritarians need to make a “them” to have a straw man whom you are against. If you need to make an enemy of “them,” you’ve lost the spirit of us. - Ken Burns of PBS
jdallen1222forum_veteranThat's crazy how close they have been for most of their lives.
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