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http://twitter.com/goanet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- My dear tornato friend, Valmiki... It also glee...d the ever-britsling cockles of my pumping-organ, most agreeably, to read your listing of our nobly fallen heroes. While you did a fine recording of that, harrowingly ongoing, pantheon I would like to complete it with a question to good old George, you having been, quite, non-conceived, planed at the time: George, old chap...did my next door neighbour Squadron Leader(?) Agostinho Monteiro, die in harness or naturally. There has been,a not un-called for, speculation...that his demise had links with his disapproval of the infamous, K. Menon jeep purchase...that time's Bofors' mess. I could expand on this aspect of the inadequacies of our military logistics... Alfred de Tavares For the uninnited: Augustiniho is the son of Dr. Baronio Monteiro, brother of Brigadier Inocencio Monteiro. Inocencio married his widowed sias I was a kid then (nee '44) when the entire cla That was ca 1949...during the first Indo-Pak > Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 21:14:34 +0530 > From: valmikigoa...@gmail.com > To: goanet@lists.goanet.org > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Brave Goan Airmen: HERALD(Goa), Feb 28, 2010 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > *** Follow Goanet on Twitter *** > > http://twitter.com/goanet > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Dear George, > > As a "lowly" non-Service pen-pusher, I take a deep bow at your kind words. > Honestly, coming as they do from a former IAF Serviceman (and one as loved > for his own writing and authorship), your words almost floored me! > > Have received quite a few responses from friends, and I plan to run a > sequel, > but will need help from ex-IAF servicemen. (It's about reviewing a list of > decorated IAF servicemen of Goan origin that I'm trying to put together.) > Would you deign to help? > > Thanks much for the compliments (even as I wonder if I've hidden my "middle" > enough as I key this in -- "Pardon me Madam, your Middle is Showing.") > -v > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:44 PM, George Menezes <writer.geo...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Valmiki Faleiro's atricle warmed the cockles of my heart > > > > It has come not a day too late. > > > > That the brave pilots have been forgotten and no awards have come their way > > is not surprising > > > > Awards are a matter of lobbying and Goan Organisations and the Goa > > Goverment must take Valmiki Faleiro's views to their logical conclusion > > > > As a lowly "Squadron Leader" who quit many years before the statutory 20 > > years giving up all benefits I am proud of fellow > > > > Goans, however few, who served the Indian Air Force. with valour, dignity > > and integrity. > > > > George Menezes > > _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969