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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (262143)	6/8/2002 10:03:48 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 769667

Thirty missions is a lot. Your neighbor must have started late. Most of the early starters didn't make that many. My father-in-law made 14, then hit flak and spent the next two years in Stalag Luft 11. I've read the diary he kept, which is mainly a copy of poems a fellow POW wrote, and a log of every letter he got while he was there. He said "he didn't have nothin' to do and all day to do it in." I get all teary when I read that diary and see the movies about those guys. If they lived they got to sleep in a bed at night, but it was actually the most dangerous mission in the war percentage wise. I went to the reunion of the 306th Bomb Group with him a couple of years ago. It is truly awesome to be in the company of so many heroes. We owe them big time.