From the Sept. 21, 2012, Houston Chronicle by James Fraser.
William Allison is the youngest at age 89. Then, there is John Mcwhinney, 93, and Willard Pennington, 99.
Once seated, Pennington sometimes pulls out a silver naval whistle and blows it, startling the other McDonald's customers. Then begins the gab session with lots of stories.
Mcwhinney parachuted 27 of his 100 times behind enemy lines. Pennington was in the Army Air Force coordinating bomber runs from England. Every day, 36 B-24s flew out. ground crews began prepping the planes at 1 AM, pilots went to breakfast at 2:30 AM and they tookoff at 7 AM for the 8 to 9 hour flight. It took 5,000 men to support those fliers.
Allison was a 1st lieutenant and aviation engineer in the Pacific where he built and repaired airfields.
They meet weekly.
I'd Sure Love to Sit In With These Heroes. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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