EASY EDDIE AND BUTCH O'HARE
The site issue for B&C 99 Dec 02 carried a piece on Easy Eddie and Butch O'Hare. (Space restrictions meant it did not appear in the print copy until B&C 101 Dec 03.)
Easy Eddie was Al Capone's lawyer. He testified against the mobster and within the year, Easy Eddie's life ended in a blaze of gunfire on a lonely Chicago street.
In addition to the gun that Eddie O'Hare never had a chance to use, police removed from his pockets a rosary, a crucifix, a religious medallion and a poem clipped from a magazine. The poem read:

The clock of life is wound but once
And no man has the power
To tell just when the hands will stop
At late or early hour.
Now is the only time you own.
Live, love, toil with a will.
Place no faith in time.
For the clock may soon be still.

Butch O'Hare was the US Navy's first Ace of WW2 and the first Naval Aviator to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. A year later he was killed in aerial combat at the age of 29. His home town would not allow the memory of that heroic action to die. Today, O'Hare Airport in Chicago is named in tribute to the courage of this great man. There are many Internet sites referring to Butch. See these as a sample:
www.acepilots.com/usn_ohare.html   www.ipsn.org/ohare.html   www.aviation-history.com/airmen/ohare.htm   www.ohare.com/ohare/about/about_butch.shtm   www.achievebalance.com/think/ohare.htm   www.hoopsu.homestead.com/motivohare.html

An original F4F-3 Wildcat was recovered from Lake Michigan by the United States Navy and donated to the Air Classics Museum.
The plane was restored to replicate the one flown by Butch O'Hare.
Sponsored by the City of Chicago and McDonald's Corporation, the recovered F4F-3 Wildcat is exhibited in Terminal 2 at the West end of the ticketing lobby to honour the extraordinary heroic feats of O'Hare International Airport's namesake. (From www.ipsn.org/ohare.html)

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