Robert Thacker, a pilot in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, died November 25 at 102 (his death wasn't reported to any news outlet until last week). His first experience of combat was delivering an unarmed B-17 bomber to Pearl Harbor and arriving during the Japanese attack. Later accomplishments included, in 1947, "the longest nonstop flight, 5,051 miles, ever made by a propeller-driven fighter, according to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, near Dayton, Ohio."
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."
"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."