RIP President Bush the First

[billryan]

President George HW Bush is dead. War hero, Former head of the CIA, former Ambassador to China, father of another President.Leader during the First Gulf War. A unique figure in US History.
Rest in Peace.

[notes1]

concise and accurate, thanks BR.

always wondered about the friendship that developed between bill clinton and the bushes. heard part of a story last night on fox; apparently bill and bush sr were asked to travel to asian countries after both were out of office, may have been to represent the usa, after tsunami. bush sr was already in his 80's. bill made sure the bush sr was given the sleeping quarters on the plane, while he slept on the floor and in chairs. it is a small thing, but damn classy!

[OTABILL]

concise and accurate, thanks BR.

always wondered about the friendship that developed between bill clinton and the bushes. heard part of a story last night on fox; apparently bill and bush sr were asked to travel to asian countries after both were out of office, may have been to represent the usa, after tsunami. bush sr was already in his 80's. bill made sure the bush sr was given the sleeping quarters on the plane, while he slept on the floor and in chairs. it is a small thing, but damn classy!

Here is an article by Clinton on his friendship with GHWB.

https://nypost.com/2018/12/01/clinton-g ... truly-was/

RIP President Bush. A patriot and truly good person.

[Carcounter]

Was listening to Imus one morning years ago and Jim Nantz the broadcaster was on. He was a close friend of 41 and tells Imus, guess who I have on the line? It was the president. Well the conversation got around to Don and his brother Fred's Salsa and Bush says he had some and it was great. He hadn't felt that good since he threw up on the Prime Minister of Japan.

[billryan]

President Bush was a pilot in WW2. On one mission off a small island, his plane was shot down. Ten Navy aviators were shot down off the island, nine of them were captured. Bush's plane took fire and managed to get a couple of miles off shore before crashing into the sea. Bush and his co-pilot jumped from the burning plane but only Bush's parachute opened. Bush survived and managed to get his small life raft operational, but Japanese patrol boats were alerted to the crash and headed to capture him. A Navy fighter group interceded and drove off the boats but they soon returned. A ship was dispatched to rescue him but was hours away. For the next four hours, the Japanese boats would make an attempt to get him only to be beaten back by machine guns from the circling planes. Eventually, the planes were being forced to withdraw until only one remained, but it was critically low on both fuel and ammo, and the rescue ship was still far off. All the pilot could do was pray.
Suddenly, directly under our future Presidents raft, an American submarine rises out of the water.
On a secret mission nearby, the Commander broke mission security to rescue the downed aviator.
A military film crew captured the rescue for prosperity and Bush used the footage to good effect during his political campaigns.

Meanwhile, on that God forsaken island, Bush's fellow aviators were subjected to unbelievable torture, were executed and eaten by their captors. Yes, I said eaten.

The man who oversaw the fall of the Berlin Wall, the destruction of the Soviet Empire and who lead the coalition that utterly ended Saddam Hussein's aggressions almost ended up as someone's lunch on a rathole in the middle of no where.