RIP indeed, Thud Driver...taking on MiGs with an F-105...damn.
Not to mention staring down the barrel at SAM-2 sites and going toe to toe with them.
I love these old vets; they aren't afraid of nothing. Death? Meh...doesn't bother them at all. One vet my wife has as a patient...he once told her he was looking forward to death and going to Hell; he wanted to go several rounds with the Devil.
Sure he's an jokester...but I wouldn't doubt if most of them feel that way. A different breed, they are. We owe them a lot.
Teller of no, fixer of everything, friend of the unimportant and all around good guy; the CAD Monkey