The Original AG 76 said:
Maximus_Meridius said:
In roughly an hour and a half, the last Silver Goblet toast will be made. Hard to fathom after 75 years. Really wish I could be at Wright-Patt today, especially for that 17 plane B-25 flyover. That's gonna be a sight, I bet.
Where do they get 17 B-25's ? I had no idea that there were that may still flying ! I though that the Raiders had their last " Silver Goblet" ceremony a few years ago when there were a few more still with us.
There are quite a few still flying, but I had figured the number closer to 10-12, and of varying different models. I don't think they've had 17 come together in one spot in a very long time. I'm talking decades. I don't know if they've even had that many at Oshkosh.
So about two years ago was when they opened the famous bottle of Hennessy cognac that was bottled Jimmy Doolittle's birthyear. Prior to that, they used different bottles. The plan had been for them to save that bottle until there were two left, and then they would open it and toast their fallen/passed comrades. They did it when there were 4 left, but only 3 were able to make it, mainly because they were all so old that making it one more year was considered risky. I
think that was 2 years ago, but someone fact check me there. Today (in 45 minutes), I'm not sure what bottle Cole will use, but this will be the last Goblet ceremony ever (though I suspect they'll have one following his death, and probably be the children toasting their parents or something similar, and that would probably be the end-someone has to turn Cole's over).
