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. Have a safe and great Memorial Day weekend!

obwan93001

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Saw hotrodgrany's post in the Off Topic forum and thought I'd post one here as I'm sure there are some of us that don't venture much past the GT/CS and HCS Forums, I'm guilty of being one of 'em.

:flag: Don't forget our troops stationed all over our world and of course all of those who have paid the ultimate price for our safety! God bless them all!

I hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable long holiday weekend! Get your cars out for a spin if you can!

I can smell the bbq and burning rubber alret! :tongue:

Oscar
 

Northern Pony

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Steve;
Is our weather coming up from you guys? ( as it usually does ) If so could you turn it off, or at least warm it up??????
Hope you all have a wonderful and safe holiday week end.
BoB
 

rvrtrash

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Steve;
Is our weather coming up from you guys? ( as it usually does ) If so could you turn it off, or at least warm it up??????
Hope you all have a wonderful and safe holiday week end.
BoB

Hey, mid to upper 50's and a new record for one day rainfall! What more could you ask for at the end of May/first of June! We're here for you buddy. :wink:

Steve
 

gazrox

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Hey Bob,

I passed through Calgary early this morning on my way to Edmonton - ugh. Dare we say the "s" word this time of year?
 

Midnight Special

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Saw hotrodgrany's post in the Off Topic forum ...
:flag: Don't forget our troops stationed all over our world and of course all of those who have paid the ultimate price for our safety! God bless them all!
Oscar

...This we do, and will always do with immense pride and gratitude!
 

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Mosesatm

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From the Rachel Maddow Show.

A tribute to an amazing man.

"Here is the state of Hawaii. Here is the island of Oahu. Here‘s Honolulu, which is Hawaii‘s capital city, and here north of Honolulu on Kaneohe Bay is a big Marine Corp base. It used to be called the Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay.

The day that Pearl Harbor was attacked, that naval air station at Kaneohe Bay got hit first, got hit seven minutes before Pearl Harbor did.

A chief petty officer named John Finn was in charge of the weapons on a squadron of PBY planes at that air base at that time. Now PBYs are planes that are also sort of boats. They fly like a plane, they land on the water. They can move in the water like a boat. PBYs were also bombers and they were also mounted with .50 caliber machine guns.

Now when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941, John Finn woke up to the sound of the attack. He raced to the hangars where his PBY planes were stored and there he found most of the planes already on fire on the ground. Some of the men from the squadron were actually trying to use the .50 caliber machine guns that were mounted in the burning planes to shoot at the Japanese fighters.

These huge machine guns were not designed to be used without something to mount them on. Hence, the clamoring over the burning planes to try to use them from those. But John Finn found an instruction stand. It wasn‘t supposed to be used for combat. It was supposed to be used as a stand to train people on how to use that gun.

John Finn grabbed a machine gun. He grabbed that instructional tripod as a makeshift mount, and he ran out into an open lot so that he could get the best possible shot at the Japanese planes that were attacking Hawaii. He went out in the open as the planes strafed that lot and the hangar over and over and over again.

John Finn was hit with shrapnel in 21 places. Shrapnel or bullets went through his chest, his belly, his arm, and his foot. He held that machine gun position in the open and kept firing at the attacking planes for two solid hours until the last Japanese plane was gone.

John Finn survived all those wounds. He stayed in the war. He was the first person awarded the nation‘s highest combat award, the Medal of Honor in World War II. John Finn died early this morning in San Diego. He was 100 years old. Mr. Finn will be buried with full military honors alongside his wife at the Campo Indian Reservation near California‘s border with Mexico.

And this upcoming weekend is a three-day weekend in America for a reason."
 

PonyGal

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Have a great and safe Memorial Day weekend everyone! Go out and drive an American car!!

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obwan93001

obwan93001

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Great pics Tim! Really, really dig the one w/yours and Renee's CSs next to the two planes. In fact, just set it as my wallpaper on the puter here, thx!

Arlie, that is an awesome story, never heard it before, thanks very much for sharing that man! Mr. Finn trully was an amazing man and a true American hero fo' sho'!

Oscar
 
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