WHEN PENGUINS FLEW AND WATER BURNED This is the true memoir of one US Air Force navigator’s journey from the schoolhouses of Air Training Command to the nuclear alerts of the Cold War to combat in a 35-year-old anachronism called the B-52. It is a first-hand account of life during the last days of Strategic Air Command, the early days of Air Combat Command and the ensuing military drawdown of the 1990s. From peacetime training exercises across the globe to combat operations in Desert Storm, Jim Clonts takes the reader inside the cockpit where life and death are seconds apart. Often comical, sometimes heart-pounding, other times tragic, WHEN PENGUINS FLEW AND WATER BURNED takes you into the world of military aviation, a crucible where warriors learn the true nature of character, conscience and mortality.

Friends of Liberty VOL 10
by Jim Clonts, 2009

06/09/2009

I believe our national conscience is best summed up with the words of this famous Democrat:

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

-President John Kennedy, 1961

Today's media and Beltway insiders would consider these words extreme. Do you hear any apologies in Kennedy's words? Do you hear any appeasement? Does he acknowledge that there are those in the world who wish us ill and is he putting them on notice? How does this compare to the "apology tour" of our current president?

America has liberated hundreds of millions of people from tyranny all over the world, and yes, that includes 25 million in Iraq and 5 million in Afghanistan and our current president apologizes for this and assures the world we won't impose our values on them?

I'm sure there are tyrants all over the world sleeping better tonight. America is officially abandoning her role as messenger of freedom and guardian of liberty.

Well done, Mr. President...

JC

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