[NSRCA-discussion] FW: [ATR Ltd.] Fw: Very Important......

Thu Jul 16 03:44:20 AKDT 2009

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To: nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:14:29 -0400
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] FW: [ATR Ltd.] Fw: Very Important......

Is anyone doing a daily report from the Nats
on the ‘net?

Jay Marshall 

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[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Vicente "Vince" Bortone

Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 7:09 AM

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Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion]
FW: [ATR Ltd.] Fw: Very Important......

RS,

Everybody very busy at
the Nats.  

VB

----- Original Message -----

From: "Richard Strickland" <pamrich47 at hotmail.com>

To: "NSRCA DISCUSSION" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>

Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:24:51 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central

Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] FW: [ATR Ltd.] Fw: Very Important......

List is fairly quiet--off another.

RS

  - 

  Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 9:27 PM

  We're hearing a lot today about big splashy memorial
  services.

  I want a nationwide memorial service for Darrell
  "Shifty" Powers.

  Shifty volunteered for the airborne in WWII and
  served with Easy  

  Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
  part of the 101st  

  Airborne Infantry. If you've seen Band of Brothers
  on HBO or the  

  History Channel, you know Shifty. His character
  appears in all 10  

  episodes, and Shifty himself is interviewed in
  several of them.

  I met Shifty in the Philadelphia airport several
  years ago. I didn't  

  know who he was at the time. I just saw an elderly
  gentleman having  

  trouble reading his ticket. I offered to help,
  assured him that he was  

  at the right gate, and noticed the "Screaming
  Eagle," the symbol of  

  the 101st Airborne, on his hat.

  Making conversation, I asked him if he'd been in the
  101st Airborne  

  or if his son was serving. He said quietly that he
  had been in the  

  101st. I thanked him for his service, then asked him
  when he served,  

  and how many jumps he made.

  Quietly and humbly, he said "Well, I guess I
  signed up in 1941 or so,  

  and was in until sometime in 1945 .. . . " at
  which point my heart  

  skipped.

  At that point, again, very humbly, he said "I
  made the 5 training  

  jumps at Toccoa, and then jumped into Normandy . . .
  . do you know  

  where Normandy is?" At this point my heart
  stopped.

  I told him "yes, I know exactly where Normandy
  is, and I know what  

  D-Day was." At that point he said "I also
  made a second jump into  

  Holland, into Arnhem." I was standing with a
  genuine war hero . . . .  

  and then I realized that it was June, just after the
  anniversary of  

  D-Day..

  I asked Shifty if he was on his way back from
  France, and he said  

  "Yes. And it's real sad because, these days, so
  few of the guys are  

  left, and those that are, lots of them can't make
  the trip." My heart  

  was in my throat and I didn't know what to say.

  I helped Shifty get onto the plane and then realized
  he was back in  

  Coach while I was in First Class. I sent the flight
  attendant back to  

  get him and said that I wanted to switch seats. When
  Shifty came  

  forward, I got up out of the seat and told him I
  wanted him to have  

  it, that I'd take his in coach.

  He said "No, son, you enjoy that seat. Just
  knowing that there are  

  still some who remember what we did and who still
  care is enough to  

  make an old man very happy." His eyes were
  filling up as he said it.  

  And mine are brimming up now as I write this.

  Shifty died on June 17 after fighting cancer.

  There was no parade.

  No big event in Staples Center.

  No wall to wall back to back 24x7 news coverage.

  No weeping fans on television.

  And that's not right.

  Let's give Shifty his own Memorial Service, online,
  in our own quiet  

  way. Please forward this email to everyone you know.
  Especially to the  

  veterans.

  Rest in peace, Shifty.

  Chuck Yeager, MajGen. [ret.]  

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