OT: Obituaries Thread

[MrNubbz]

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He isn't famous like most listed here but this is the last WWII Veteran that I really knew. Jim Plummer died at 100. I had many conversations with him at meetings.

Jim graduated HS early, in December, 1941 and joined the Navy in early 1942 because he was mad about Pearl Harbor. He flew blimps out of S. America looking for U-Boats during the war.

Blimps ,holy crap the deck guns on U-Boats could have brought them down no problem.Cut from a different cloth back then. Fair Winds and Following Seas to Mr. Plummer

[medinabuckeye1]

Blimps ,holy crap the deck guns on U-Boats could have brought them down no problem.Cut from a different cloth back then. Fair Winds and Following Seas to Mr. Plummer

I read once about a submarine that actually did shoot down a blimp.  You are right, a deck gun could take down a blimp but the purpose of the blimps was to spot the submarines underwater.  A submerged submarine is completely helpless against a blimp.  

After the war he flew P51's in the Guard.  

At our Kiwanis meetings on Veterans' Day we have a tradition of singing a medley of the Service Branch songs and the Veterans all stand during theirs.  Jim stood for almost the entire medley because he served in the Navy, then the Army (in the Army Air Force before the Air Force was formed), then the Air Force.  

[ELA]

https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1848931308233232764?t=a-codqxuRk7zMKTgtiYb6w&s=19

[FearlessF]

81 was a very good year

[OrangeAfroMan]

[utee94]

81 was a very good year

Heck yeah!  Rush released Moving Pictures that year, which has my favorite Rush song of all time, Red Barchetta.

They also released the live double album Exit...Stage Left later that same year, which is the first CD I ever bought for myself, a few years later-- probably 1988 I'd guess.

[MrNubbz]

81 was a very good year

For Fernando and the Dodgers as a poster stated

He got everything a pitcher in MLB can accomplish
20 win season
Cy young
#WorldSeries champion twice
Rookie of the year
1 No hitter game
All star many times RIP him and LaSorda are having a lively conversation

[OrangeAfroMan]

For Fernando and the Dodgers as a poster stated

He got everything a pitcher in MLB can accomplish
20 win season
Cy young
#WorldSeries champion twice
Rookie of the year
1 No hitter game
All star many times RIP him and LaSorda are having a lively conversation

I'm not sure if either is understanding the other very much, lol.  But who loves baseball more than those two?

[FearlessF]

[MrNubbz]

https://twitter.com/Browns/status/1850236017019613591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1850236017019613591%7Ctwgr%5E5b7c6d8ab27061ab27849b11a3dc6

R.I.P. JIM DONOVAN
Voice of the Browns for 25 yrs,Donovan's calls of Browns games were often among the highlights from what has otherwise been 25 years of mostly losing football. However, while he was never afraid to tell it as it was regardless of whether it made the team look bad, his enthusiasm in the big moments was hard to miss.Chris Collingsworth 1st NFL telecast he was paired with Jimmy on NBC

https://www.wkyc.com/video/sports/nfl/browns/voice-of-the-browns-jim-donovan-catches-up-with-cris-collinsworth-before-sunday-night-football/95-1fc20d82-f7a3-49db-91ef-4818109b3977

[Gigem]

How about those Lions?  Dan Campbell is a heck of a coach.  

[ELA]

How about those Lions?  Dan Campbell is a heck of a coach. 

And yet you put them in the obituary thread?  Ouch

[Gigem]

And yet you put them in the obituary thread?  Ouch

My bad, I intended to post in the NFL forum.  I didn't even catch that until you did.  But it's kind of funny isn't it ? 

[MrNubbz]

Well it is around Halloween and the Motor City Kitties could get spooked