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| Jr. Officer   |  Retired maj. general, former POW, dies Retired maj. general, former POW, dies The Associated Press Posted : Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 23:25:29 EST COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — William “Bud” Breckner, a former fighter pilot and prisoner of war in Vietnam who retired from the Air Force as a major general, has died in a car crash. He was 74. State troopers said Breckner was driving home when he lost control on a curve and slid into some trees early Saturday. In the late 1970s, he was assigned to the Air Force Academy, where he served as deputy commandant and later as vice commandant of cadets. The Ohio native began his career as an Air Force fighter pilot in 1955 and went on to fly missions in Vietnam. In July 1972, he was captured after his plane was shot down over Hanoi, and he spent nine months as a prisoner of war. He had participated in Air Force Academy booster groups, pilot organizations, military groups at the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce and was on the Colorado Springs Airport advisory board. Retired maj. general, former POW, dies - Air Force News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Air Force Times -
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02-20-2008, 08:21
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| Junior Officer   |  Re: Retired maj. general, former POW, dies Thank you for the post...in respect of a great US Vet
__________________ War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) |
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