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Brenda Ann wrote:

Maybe he's on the big stage in the sky introducing Johnny...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/...s_obit_mcmahon

This particular obituary touches briefly on Ed's service record.

Here is some more info from another:

During World War II, he was a Marine aviator, flight instructor and test
pilot. Discharged in 1946, returning to active duty in the Korean War in
1953.

He remained in the Marine Corps Reserve, retiring with the rank of Colonel
in
1966 and was then commissioned as a Brigadier General in the California
Air
National Guard.



Thanks for that, Steve. Pretty incredible. I've never heard it before, nor
frankly even had the thought occur to me.