Gen. Chuck Yeager, American Legend, R.I.P.

 He held on until Pearl Harbor Day because of course he did.

"Q: How do you live to 120?
Gen. Yeager: First, you live to 119, then you be very very careful."

Receiving the Collier Air Award from Pres. Truman in 1948 for breaking the Sound Barrier and paving the way for our Space Program

Legend. The time he was promoted by Jimmy Doolittle. Or the time he was shot down over France, fought with the Resistance--the REAL Resistance--then escaped to Spain and got a personal waiver from General Eisenhower to fly over Europe again, necessary because of what he knew.

"The first jet I ever saw, I shot down." By the way, that was a German Messerschmitt jet, not a MIG. Although he shot those down, too. And he shot it down with a prop-driven P-51. Try it sometime.

Eagle-eyed and natural dog-fighter, he could see enemy planes in the distance long before other pilots could. An ace's ace. 

I can't help but compare him to some of the cardboard corporals that infest the Pentagon today. I won't even go there.

My whole life has been lived in the security he provided to this nation. Yours, too.

Thank you, sir, and Godspeed.

                                                                                                    Rest in Peace