Colonel

Um, so we're gonna get to our, our program today, and it's pretty exciting.

Um, Colonel, retired Colonel Rafi Rodriguez, uh, is gonna be our guest.

He's a friend, and he'll share a story, Rafi, uh, Rafi's Amigos, with you, uh, when we get to him.

But let me explain a little logistics here.

It is most true that many Scots did get much, but not more with one hand than they spent with the other.

Witness the Earl of Kelly, Annandale, etc., nay that great getter the earl of carlisle also and some private gentlemen as gideon murray john achmody james bailey john gibb and bernard lindley got some pretty estates not worthy either the naming or envying but old servants should get some moderate estates to leave to posterity but these and all the scots in general got scarce the tithe of those english getters that can be said did stick by them or their posterity Besides, Salisbury had one trick to get the Colonel and leave the Scots but the shell, yet cast all the envy on them.

He would make them buy books of fee-farms, some one hundred pounds per annum, some one hundred marks, and he would compound with them for a thousand pounds, which they were willing to embrace because they were sure to have them pass without any control or charge.

And one thousand pounds appeared to them that never saw ten pounds before, an inexhaustible treasure.

It appeared that Kopp had come back to Barcelona.

He had a letter from the Ministry of War to the Colonel commanding the engineering operations on the Eastern Front.

He knew that the POUM had been suppressed, of course, but probably it did not occur to him that the police could be such fools as to arrest him when he was on his way to the front on an urgent military mission.

He had come round to the Hotel Continental to fetch his kit-bags.

Churchill's ability won him rapid advancement in the army.

On the 3rd April 1674, Louis XIV appointed him Colonel of the English Regiment, and he was present during Turenne's campaign on the Rhine.

There he saw enough of the horrors of war, for the July and August of 1674 were devoted by Turenne to the total devastation of the Palatinate.

He wished to make it impossible for the enemy to subsist there and threaten the French frontier.

But at the bottom her affection was as sincere as his, and early in 1678 they were privately married in the presence of the Duchess of York.

Marriage only deepened their affection, and in that dissolute age they formed an example, unhappily only too rare amongst the higher classes, of a perfect union which, though ruffled occasionally by Sarah's overbearing temper, was never marred by jealousy or mistrust.

About the time of his marriage Colonel Churchill obtained a regiment of foot.

During the first years of his married life he had no settled home and was repeatedly separated from his wife.

Property damage, considering values in that early day, was tremendous for a small island, estimated at more than $7 million.

Barbados had suffered so much that England sent Colonel, afterward Brigadier General, William Reed of the Royal Engineers to superintend the reconstruction of the government buildings.

He was appalled by what he saw.

Reed examined the ruins and made inquiries of many people about the nature of the hurricane of 1831.

And the flyer who did it was probably the most expert in the world at getting safely through all kinds of weather.

Looking at it from this point of view, it is not strange that there was a rather amusing sequel to this story involving the other instructors at Bryan, Texas.

But first, we come to the story of the history-making flight by Colonel Duckworth.

Early in the morning of July 27, 1943, Joe came out to have breakfast at the field.