My grandfather's last flight

My grandfather’s last flight


My grandfather was born on a farm in the American West.

This was during WW1. No phone, no cars, no electricity, no indoor toilet. Today we’d describe it as “third-world conditions.”

One day you’re a kid plowing a field behind an ox, then you’re cruising 40,000 feet above the Arctic Ocean piloting a killing machine with the power to vaporize cities.

He was one of 10 kids. Somehow he and all his siblings made it to adulthood.

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He was tap dancer. Worked in vaudeville (which means he opened for a stripper). That’s how he paid for college during the Depression. First member of the family to go.

He was a pilot in the war. Learned to fly, operate radios — skills

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