The fact that two people did the horizontal bop several millenniums ago — in or near Germany — shouldn’t produce a hyphenation I have to wear for all time.
Mission complete. Those were the words spoken at the graveside service for Staff Sergeant David Thatcher of Missoula, one of the last two remaining Doolittle Raiders. Thatcher passed away on Sunday at age 94.
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — One of the last two surviving members of the Doolittle Raiders, who bombed Japan during World War II in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, has died in Montana.
Montana Congressman Steve Daines was in Missoula on Monday in the Florence Hotel Governor's Room to confer Purple Heart Medals of Valor to three veterans, one posthumously, during a Decoration Ceremony .