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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nSomeone sent us a link to the story of Abner Aust in the Highland News-Sun<\/a> who celebrated his 95th birthday in Frostproof, Florida which calls him the “the last World War II flying ace”;<\/p>\n Wearing a bright yellow flight suit he bought while flying combat tours in Vietnam, Aust talked briefly about how he shot down five enemy airplanes in the fading days of World War II in the Pacific.<\/p>\n As a young pilot, he flew a P-51 into combat from a base at Iwo Jima in August 1945, days after the atomic bombs were dropped, but Japanese flyers still took to the air to try and stop their county\u2019s inevitable surrender.<\/p>\n Later, Aust says, he served in Korea as an air defense planner and later led a jet fighter wing in the Vietnam war, logging dozens of combat flights and earning a host more medals. All told, the former flyer says, he earned the Legion of merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross with three clusters, a Bronze Star, the Air Medal with 25 clusters and a number of Vietnamese medals. He also was submitted for the Silver Star for gallantry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He invited the guests at his birthday back for his 100th birthday, too.<\/p>\n Abner Aust may be a flying ace (Wiki<\/a> verifies it), but he’s no angel. In 2000, he went to jail for two years for paying someone to burn his ex-wife’s house down and while he was in prison, he was convicted of trying to find someone to kill his ex-wife. In 2012<\/a>, he filed a phony $1 million lien against his ex-wife’s house. I guess those of you with ex-wives have those sorts of problems. <\/p>\n Spite might have something to do with his longevity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"