From: David <dluff@e...>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 09:49:30 -0400
Subject: Re: [OT] Living Legends, was Re: (SG2] Orbital Insertion (an alternative approach to calculat
John; Was this at the armor show you went too on Saturday? You lucky bastard, it must have been a great time..... see you on Monday at the Game Parlor starting at 10am. David > John M. Atkinson wrote: Old, > but still highly energetic and a good public speaker (even if he
From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 08:05:03 -0700
Subject: [OT] Living Legends, was Re: (SG2] Orbital Insertion (an alternative approach to calculat
> Los wrote: > > (Completely offtopic--I met and shook hands with General Yup. He was a tank commander in WWII, and he looks like it--short, but stocky. In his 70s--he was pretty young when he invented the AK. Old, but still highly energetic and a good public speaker (even if he speaks no English--he was hauling around a Major General to translate for him, which speaketh volumes about his clout, no?). Got a standing ovation of course--with a crowd of gun nuts and military buffs how could he not? It was at a tank museum, and they had painted up one of their (in good working order, as all their tanks are) T-34/85s like his old tank before the Germans ventilated it.