Subject: Alt.senile.artKramer
From: (B2431)
Date: 8/7/2004 1:19 AM Pacific Standard Time
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ou could try telling Art that all war is local and those who are there have
only the vaguest idea what is going on much further than the eye can see.
When
I was in combat in Viet Nam I could tell you exactly what I had experienced,

I never wrote about anything but B-26's or anything other than bombing from a
B-26.


He has no idea the maintainers who fixed and armed that B-26 pulled
additional
duties he benefitted from like KP, trash, latrine details and how they felt
about it.

Our maintainers wwre all T/sgts an never pulled KP or latrine duty or even
guard duty but I pulled Officer of the Day and Officer of the Guard regularly
And if we never came back from a mission the crew chiefs would get a new plane
and crew in a heartbeat. And we would be only a memory soon to be forgotten.
And when the war ended these guys would live long and happy lives while we lay
buried in foriegn soil. War is not about gyros. It is about men who go out and
never come back as opposed to other men wo live their lives in relaitive
safety..And if you don't know the difference between them, you have never been
to war.



Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer