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Offline wilber

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Re: Personal Stuff
« Reply #1245 on: September 22, 2020, 07:25:44 pm »
I got shot down flying between Methar and Bagram air base in Afghanistan. The company I was contracting to decided to blame me in order to hide that it was a dangerous country to work in at the time. Then while I was at home going for a walk on the beach I suffered an occlusion that robbed me of sight of one of my eyes. So much for a ~40 year flying career. Have I thought about jumping off the main street bridge...yep. Have I increased my trips to the liquor store...yep. But I'm also so lucky to have a lovely lady who has stood by me through it all and my love and appreciation for her is more than enough to just want to hold herhand as we cross that bridge.

That's terrible about your eye but if it's any consolation, age eventually ends all flying careers. Mine ended 14 years ago. Life is short and there are plenty of other things in life than flying and limited time to do them. I thought I had lots of time when I retired, it goes really fast.

"Never trust a man without a single redeeming vice" WSC