A funny thing. After we both got home from Vietnam we rarely talked about it. It was just like we both turned a page in our life and lived on. We would talk about guys we knew or met but that was about it.
He went on to fly just about anything that would get airborne. Never could get him to jump out of one though. Even took him up once to jump and he decided not to do it. So I went up twice. He thought I was nuts for liking that and I thought he was nuts for the things he liked to fly. He even built himself one of those flying parachute planes after he could no longer pass a flight physical. That thing scared the pants off of me.
Discovered HE WAS AFRAID OF heights. LMAO. He did not even like taller step ladders. He said it was all about control. In a plane he was in control.
Here is one of the last things he flew. Last Nov. he was able to go up one more time at the controls.
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