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Thread #20528   Message #2039198
Posted By: GUEST,Gene
30-Apr-07 - 02:05 AM
Thread Name: The Saddest Song Ever written
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written
Brian Hoskin listed one of my all time favorites by

Hank Williams - 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry'

A few others that bring tears are:

'The Death Of Kathy Fiscus' [April the 8th, the year '49]

I was 'glued' to the radio during that tragic event and I got out my guitar and sang that song every year for 50 years....Ironically,
I got the phone call that my brother died on April the 8th, 2001.

'Coming In On A Wing And A Prayer' has sad and fond memories also,
I was 10 years old when my brother's B-17 was shot down on his VERY
LAST mission in 1944 in WWII (He was crew chief and Top Turret Gunner). With two engines out and losing fuel, they dumped
all the guns and everything they could, including all the guns and
the Norden bombsight in the Adriatic Sea, having minutes of fuel remaining when they made it to a little DOT of an island off Yugoslavia.

After his death in 2001 I was able via the internet to locate several of the personnel he had flown on that FINAL mission and on previous other missions.

The Pilot of that B-17, and a bombadier, a navigator, a belly turret gunner and a photographer/waist gunner from other earlier missions.

and '50,000 Names On The Wall'

Gene