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Mike,
I think if you are really concerned with what Jim has to say, then maybe you should email him directly, all this thread is going to do is become a "me against you" type of thread. Not trying to speak for Jim, but the bloke I know would rather you email him direct, I am sure Jim would agree. I am a mate of Jim, I consider him a brother, so I will not respond to your statements as many would be saying to themselves, oh it's only Andrew sticking up for his mate Jim again.
All I will add is that this year I had the opportunity to meet the bloke, and I know how proud he is to wear the uniform of the United States Navy, and to serve his country, and how sad he is that the "younger generation" have failed to realise the sacrifice those who have gone before him have made.
I challange anyone on this forum to quote when Jim has said he hated MvR. Sure he has been "enthusiastic" in his responses and sometimes he has attacked, but only when the first shot has been fired by someone else. See the recent thread by the lammer who calls himsef vR, it was only when somebody decided to bring in Jim's opinion of MvR (BTW he said Jim hated MvR maybe that bloke, I think his name was Don or Dan, sorry if I got your name wrong, can quote a specific thread that Jim wrote he hated MvR.) It certainly was not Jim instigating that battle.
As for Jim bringing his service record into the equation, he was questioned many months ago, about how would he know about combat, has he been in it.
I find myself feeling like I am in the movie Ground Hog Day, for if I am not mistaken it was about this time last year that a few people tried to have Jim thrown off the forum for his opinion. I find this quite bizarre, as Vin in his latest post has a quote from a book about MvR shooting down lame ducks, and how he would not have got away with this in WW2, and no one has replied, I wonder why. Perhaps Vin does not bite as well as Jim.
Well I have done what I hoped not to do, and start to defend Jim as he is capable of doing that himself.
Anyway to all a Happy New Year, and before you all start jumping on the band wagon, do we need another thread were all we do is take the p.ss out of one another. BTW Mike I know you did not intend this to be an attack on Jim, but to echo my earlier thoughts, if you didn't mean it to be an attack, why post it here instead of emailing Jim direct?
Andrew Smith
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