Veterans

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A lady I worked with was being ragged on by a WWII vet for driving a Dodge Caravan powered by a Mitsubishi engine. He had served in the Pacific fleet. Dean was going on about how could she drive that car with an engine that powered the Japanese aircraft that attacked the fleet. Of course she was speechless. So I pipped up with, "Dean how about that GM pickup you are driving when they built the engines that powered the tanks trying to kill my Dad." It shut him up but I was wrong the tanks were powered with the Maybach engine build by Benz. I should've said powered the airplanes strafing our lines. GM and Ford got restitution with tax breaks because we bombed their plants during the war. Ain't nobody got clean hands. But your prank was sweet.

BTW my wife and I spent our only vacation in Ireland. Because of a transport accident our gasoline Ford Fiesta was unavailable. The Hertz agent was quite sorrowful and offered us a larger car at the same price. I had chosen the Fiesta because the roads where we were going were very narrow with high stone walls on either side in West County Cork. "Oh! West Cork! I do have a Fiesta van (only front seats) agency car that I can rent you. It is clean but won't be as nice as a usual rental." "That will be perfect, Mr. Hanrahan, as were are just the 2 of us." He then added, "It's a diesel and gets 80 MPH." I thought that was Irish bragging but it did. Even with the high price of fuel in Ireland with that kind of milage we drove cheaper than at home in Texas. And TEB was not padding our tank thank you very much.