We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:02:04 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification I had just finished debriefing CPT Mike O’Connor, my section leader, about my first flight of my first AT with the Jersey Guard. I left him in the Planning Room on the second floor of the old wooden hangar at Wheeler-Sack AAF, walked out the door and down the single stairway onto the hangar floor and promptly came nose-to-nose with – Mike O’Connor. “Geez, Mike, how’d you get *down* here so fast?” “Easy – I’m twins.” *leprechaun grin* And he continued walking across the hangar floor towards the ramp. I turned around to head toward our own aircraft parking area... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:19:34 -0600 Haven't commented because I didn't know what to so. So sorry, Bill. *hug* http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html#comment-69895 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html#comment-69895 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:34:50 -0600 I lost a family member to it also. It’s slow but deadly. My condolences to Charlie O’Connor’s family. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html#comment-69885 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html#comment-69885 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:15:18 -0600 What HF6 said. Pancreatic's a bad 'un, there's basically nothing they can do. Owhell, at least you get enough notice to arrange things with family, friends and lawyer. Oh, yeah, it does run in families. Sucks. Libation poured. Ave atque vale. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html#comment-69881 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html#comment-69881 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:24:43 -0600 Absent Companions! [sound of smashing glass] http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html#comment-69880 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html#comment-69880 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:42:30 -0600 Just damn. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html#comment-69877 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html#comment-69877 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:16:38 -0600 *sniff* Cancer has it's own agenda, doesn't it? Damn. I'm so sorry, Bill. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html#comment-69875 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html#comment-69875 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:22:22 -0600 pancreatic cancer sucks indeed. We lost my dad AND my father in law to it. The odds are stacked against the Marine!Goth, which scares the bejabbers out of me. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html#comment-69874 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html#comment-69874 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:11:39 -0600 Damn. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html#comment-69872 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/02/someone_you_sho_6.html#comment-69872 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:43:43 -0600