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Old 06-05-2014, 12:54 PM
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This is a great story.
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This is one of may favorite stories and I happily re-read it every time I come across it. Thanks for sharing!
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This is one of may favorite stories and I happily re-read it every time I come across it. Thanks for sharing!
Same here.
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Great story! Thanks for sharing.
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I have a book at home about this. It is a great read. Soon as I get home I'll post the title and the author.

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This is pretty interesting, I've seen a couple of different tellings of this, all suggest that Richthofen was killed by ground fire. As a child I was fascinated by these stories, I guess I still am.
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Thank you very much. I had never heard this great story.
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I share this eveyonce in a while on my FB when it comes around always love readin it again.
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This is pretty interesting, I've seen a couple of different tellings of this, all suggest that Richthofen was killed by ground fire. As a child I was fascinated by these stories, I guess I still am.
Mike,
Great stuff! Thx for sharing. Hope you're well my friend.
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