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Jack Cook
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A good friend of mine Colonel Joe Edmonds Ret. USMC 54-82 was a pilot, and mentored unde Gen Carl. Col Joe could tell some interesting stories about Marion Carl. Gen Carl would take any wing aircraft available and take off (they thought he went hunting or fishing--they did not ask) The airplanes would come back with weeds in the wheel wells. He would set them down anywhere he could.
He was killed a few years back by a home intruder. Col Joe says " Gen Carl was almost deaf, and the intruder probably slipped up on him". What a shame! He was, and is, a Marine Corp legand.

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He was killed a few years back by a home intruder. Col Joe says " Gen Carl was almost deaf, and the intruder probably slipped up on him".

Not correct.
A drug addict broke into his and edna's house and was going to shot her.
Has he pulled the trigger Marion ran into the kitchen and jumped in front of Edna to protect her and died instantly from a 12 guage shotgun blast to the face.
That my friends is a true hero!!!

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Didn't ever hear that part, Jack, Just remembering Col Joe's statement, and hearing on the news that he was killed by an intruder.

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What happened to the ass#@le that killed him? Did he fry in the chair yet?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Eugene_Carl


He had the speed record in the Douglas Sky Streak until Yeager broke the sound barrier. He was also the first Marine to fly a helicopter......

Some Nice stuff about him here at Arlington's website:
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/mecarl.htm

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/mecarl ... t-2006.jpg

6/28/98, at age 82, he was killed defending Edna, his wife, from a home invader.

LtGen Carl's murderer, 19-year old Jesse Fanus, was apprehended one week after the killing. In April 1999, he was convicted on two counts of aggravated murder (and 11 additional felony charge) and sentenced to death. In 2003, his conviction and death sentence was upheld by the Oregon Supreme Court.

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(Looks like Jesse may be meeting up with me soon?? He's currently on Death Row)
http://www.oregon.gov/DOC/PUBAFF/cap_pu ... Executions

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Looks like Jesse may be meeting up with me soon

Ha, Here in Oregon it'll be old age!! With a lifetime of the best care taxpayers can provide :?

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He won't ride "Ol sparky",They will lethal inject him with strawberry shortcake. If that dude pulled that crap in Texas or Georgia, He'd be colder than a block of ice by now! Hell that happened in the summer of "98".

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