To: HPilot who wrote (45424 ) 2/17/2011 5:22:46 PM From: Honey_Bee 1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 103300 I'm looking at page 17 and 18 of "Decision Points" written by George W. Bush. He documents how he proved that he fulfilled his National Guard responsibilities. He also writes about those Dan Rather FORGED documents that claimed Bush did not fulfill his obligations. Here are some excerpts from President Bushs' great book. George W. Bush wrote: "The typeface came from a modern computer font that didn't exist in the early 1970s.....I was amazed and disgusted. Dan Rather had aired a report influencing a presidential election based on a fake document. Before long, he was out of a job. So was his producer. After years of false allegations, the Guard questions finally began to abate. I will always be proud of my time in the Guard. I learned a lot, made lifelong friends, and was honored to wear our country's uniform. I admire and respect those who deployed to Vietnam. Nearly sixty thousand of them never came home. My service was nothing compared to theirs." Anyone interested in a few more excerpts of what he said about how he learned to fly a fighter jet called the F-102 at Ellington Air Force Base? How he worked during the day in agribusiness and logged his flight hours during the evenings or weekends? How he loved flying? How in one of his first flights, his instructor "smelled insecurity" and rather than counsel him, he "suddenly grabbed the yoke, pulled back as hard as he could, stalled the aircraft. The nose went up and the plane shuddered. he then shoved the stick forward, and down went the nose. The plane recovered. The trainer had shown me my first stall recovery maneuver. He looked at me and said, "Boy, if you want to be a pilot, you must control this machine and not let it control you." Now that is a man you can trust at the helm.... What we have now is a tragic joke by comparison. .