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Memorial Day Tribute
A Rolling Thunder motorcyclist at Greenbelt's American Legion #136 picnic shared "God's Own Lunatics" with me on Sunday.
The video is well worth the click, here are some excerpts, if you want a preview:
Is there anyone here today who does not thrill to the sound of those Huey blades? That familiar whop-whop-whop is the soundtrack of our war the lullaby of our younger days ...
It meant someone was coming to help ... someone was coming to give us a ride out of hell.
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To us you seemed beyond brave and fearless... that you would come to us in the middle of battle in those flimsy thin-skinned crates ...
What they are saying ... when you listen hard enough is this: We are at peace; so should you be, so should you be.
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The speech was given by Joe Galloway at the Vietnam War Memorial during the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association reunion in Washington, D.C. in July 2000.
Thanks to Eddie Carneal from Rolling Thunder for passing along the story.
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