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Buzz Aldrin: This is why he was a fighter pilot [VIDEO]

There are obviously limits to how much you can ‘bug’ Buzz. (Most folks seem to feel that this guy deserved what he got.)

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This entry was posted in HISTORY, HUMOR, VIDEO and tagged Buzz Aldrin on August 15, 2013 by Thinkwing Radio.

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Mike Honig is originally from Brooklyn, New York. He moved to Houston in September of 1977 and has been there ever since. Mike's interests are politics, history, science, science fiction (and reading generally), technology, and almost anything else. Mike has knowledge and experience in many diverse fields, sometimes from having worked in them, and sometimes from extensive reading or discussion about them. Mike's general knowledge makes him a favorite partner in Trivial Pursuit. He likes to say that about most things, he knows enough to be dangerous. Humility is a work-in-progress.

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