# Drinking with Historic connections.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 21, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-with-historic-connections/280923 "2004-12-21T04:03:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trailer\_Park\_Casanova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@Trailer\_Park\_Casanova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trailer_Park_Casanova)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-with-historic-connections/280923/1 "2004-12-21T04:03:37Z")

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My dad was a bomber pilot.  
We stopped of at an lodge once on the road, and we bumped into a WWII wartime buddy of his.  
The guys was short, in his 80’s & had one hell of a sense of Humor. The two chatted for a spell.

Later as we were driving home my dad told me the guy was Paul Tibbits, pilot of the Enola Gay.

OK, BFD.

More BFD’s:

Tonight, I stop off at another lodge, and avery Volupous girl sits down next to me, and has a bull terrier with her.  
The dog is a decendant of Generals Pattons dog, and the girl Pattons grand daughter.  
If she lost 80 lbs she’d be a knock out.

Around the Horseshoe of the bar sat a cool guy named Barney. Barney was a 2nd liet. in the Army in WWII, and was XO in a unit that hung the majority of Japanese war criminals. A heck of a guy to talk to, he was present on the gallows for the executions that his unit carried out.

OK, so I kinda touched base with some US history,

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-with-historic-connections/280923/2 "2004-12-21T04:11:35Z")

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> [@Trailer Park Casanova](#):
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> Later as we were driving home my dad told me the guy was Paul Tibbits, pilot of the Enola Gay.
> 
> OK, BFD.

Yeah, you meet one pilot who’s actually nuked a city, you’ve met them all. And the astronauts who’ve walked on the moon think of themselves as an elite community…