ALLEN J. DIEFENDORF, COLONEL, USAF RETIRED....1924 - 1996

THE DEAD. POW's . MIA's . EVERYBODY WHO SERVED THIER COUNTRY IN WAR AND PEACETIME, GIVING THIER TIME AND BLOOD. MY DAD AND LOTS OF OTHER DADS WENT. THEY DID WHAT THEY HAD TO DO IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM FOR HUMAN BEINGS. NOT FOR POLITICS, NOT FOR FAME, NOT FOR GLORY, AND CERTAINLY NOT FOR MONEY. FOR HUMANITY.

ALLEN J. DIEFENDORF --- MY DAD, COLONEL, U.S. AIR FORCE SERVED FROM 1942 -- 1975 . THIRTY-THREE YEARS. FLYING COMBAT OVER FRANCE AT 20 YRS. OLD. HE FOUGHT IN WWII, KOREA, AND VIET NAM. HE WAS IN THE 557th TACTICAL FIGHTER SQUADRON IN VIET NAM, THE 367th FIGHTER GROUP IN WW II, AND THE 49th FIGHTER-BOMBER GROUP IN KOREA.

DAD RETIRED WITH A TON OF MEDALS AND HONORS. BUT THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT . HE RETIRED WITH THE HIGHEST RESPECT FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE SOME OF THE MOST RESPECTED IN MILITARY HISTORY THEMSELVES!! IF ANYONE EVER TALKS CRAP ABOUT ANY VETERANS, MAKE THEM WATCH FILMS OF THE LIBERATION OF THE I N N O C E N T PEOPLE FROM THE CREMATORIUMS WHERE THEY WERE PUT IN.....ALIVE!!----

---DAD MADE BIG-TIME HISTORY TOO !! GO TO A COMPLETE RE-PRINT OF THE UNITED PRESS STORY FROM OCTOBER 10, 1950, WHERE THE SHIT ALMOST HIT THE FAN IN A -- BIG -- WAY! A VERY INTERESTING STORY !!

ALLEN J. DIEFENDORF, COLONEL, USAF RETIRED....1924 - 1996.....TALLY-HO, SHARKBAIT, ........... I'LL SEE YOU IN DE-BRIEFING -- Johnny....son #4.................Charles, Thomas, David,

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