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To: goldworldnet who wrote (723202)	1/27/2006 9:35:35 PM
From: Gary H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The US and allies HAD to be involved in World War II. We don't need to be involve in this one. The following is a fine tribute to the Vets. Tribute (Read this and then click the link below) The elderly parking lot attendant wasn't in a good mood! Neither was Sam Bierstock. It was around 1 a.m., and Bierstock, a Delray Beach, FL eye doctor, business consultant, corporate speaker and musician, was bone tired after appearing at an event. He pulled up in his car, and the parking attendant began to speak. "I took two bullets for this country and look what I'm doing," he said bitterly. At first, Bierstock didn't know what to say to the World War II veteran. But he rolled down his window and told the man, "Really, from the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you." Then the old soldier began to cry. "That really got to me," Bierstock says. Cut to today. Bierstock, 58, and John Melnick, 54, of Pompano Beach and a member of Bierstock's band, Dr. Sam and the Managed Care Band, have written a song inspired by that old soldier in the airport parking lot. The mournful "Before You Go" does more than salute those who fought in WWII. It encourages people to go out of their way to thank the aging warriors before they die. "If we had lost that particular war, our whole way of life would have been shot," says Bierstock, who plays harmonica. "The WW II soldiers are now dying at the rate of about 2,000 every day. I thought we needed to thank them." The song is striking a chord. Within four days of Bierstock placing it on the Web, the song and accompanying photo essay had bounced around nine countries, producing tears and heartfelt thanks from veterans, their sons and daughters and grandchildren. "It made me cry," wrote one veteran's son. Another sent an e-mail saying that only after his father consumed several glasses of wine would he discuss "the unspeakable horrors" he and other soldiers had witnessed in places such as Anzio, Iwo Jima, Bataan and Omaha Beach. "I can never thank them enough," the son wrote. "Thank you for thinking about them." Bierstock and Melnick thought about shipping it off to a professional singer, maybe a Lee Greenwood type, but because time was running out for so many veterans, they decided it was best to release it quickly, for free, on the Web. They've sent the song to Sen. John McCain and others in Washington. They were invited to perform it in Houston for a Veterans Day tribute - this after just a few days on the Web. They hope every veteran in America gets a chance to hear it. God Bless EVERY veteran and THANK YOU to those of you veterans who may receive this! Click the link below to hear the song and see the pictures. Then share it with everyone you know. Click here: managedmusic.com

To: goldworldnet who wrote (723202)	1/27/2006 10:00:57 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

That one sounds interesting, too. Here are some others I've heard about, (supposed to be some of the finest books ever written on the subject of submarines at war): Herbert A. Werner's spellbinding autobiographical account of his days in the German Navy of World War II, Iron Coffins: A U-Boat Commander's War 1939-1945. Edward L. Beach's classic, historical novel of the submarine war in the Pacific called Run Silent, Run Deep (on which the movie was based). Lothar-Gunther Buchheim's Das Boot, about a war patrol of a German submarine in WWII, and the source for the screenplay of the thrilling movie of the same name. Thunder Below! by Adm. Gene Fluckey, about the exploits of the USS Barb while under his command during the conflict with Japan. Great history and a great story. Some about submarine operations of more recent vintage than the Second World War: Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Drew. The book is filled with tales that will just plain blow your mind. How much is history? One Navy reviewer, intimately familiar with the subject matter of the book, had this to say: "About 80% of the book is true. The rest is informed fiction. But I am not permitted to say which is which." :) Beyond the historical accounts or the history-based novels, there is also the submarine realm of technological fiction, which oft times approaches science fiction: Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October comes to mind, as does the remarkable detail of submarine operations discussed in his later work Red Storm Rising And while on fictional books about submarine operations, don't neglect Joe Buff, a prolific writer in the past few years. Buff's futuristic accounts of submarine warfare, complete with ceramic-hulled vessels fighting low-yield nuclear battles at sea, are set in books with titles such as Crush Depth and Deep Sound Channel. :)