Jeez, nothing like a good ghost story on a dismal Sunday afternoon.

*smiles brightly... 'A Christmas Carol' anyone?

I'm so glad you liked it...

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Very nice.

why thank you so very much...

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Excellent story! Worthy of the old comic Weird War Tales (of course, they'd have to edit it to bring it up to the Comics Code).

*chuckles... of course they would...

thanks Walt...

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Some things are best left unsaid.

Bunners

very much so Buns...

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This was really good! As ever, thank you kindly for sharing it. ^__^

*smiles so very big... thank you so kindly Dai...

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Ah, the A1 skyraider was a magnificent dog. It took no less than 4 distinct jet types to replace it. The A3,a4,A6 and F4

Of course the 'jug' was a beast too, you know it was designed by a Russian immigrant who fled Tiblisi when the Bolskeviks took over? Big gain for America!

I didn't know that... way cool!

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Gift hosses n' mouths. I don't question, n' I dunna ask.

ahem... if it was a mouth we wouldn't have had this story...

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That's why I never question. ^.=.^

That was so good... oddly I know a couple of Nam pilots that had things like that happen to them over in Nam.

*chuckles... I can believe it... I knew a fellow who really did run into a steel post one night. It knocked him cold. The trench he would have been in took a direct hit. Ever after he would sit drinking beer and hugging that pole.

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That one brought forth a tear.

*smiles very big... thank you for telling me T...

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Worthy of https://www.amazon.com/Great-Flying...../dp/0393336964 ...

now that looks good Marm... thank you...

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Think I may just go reread my copy. :D

*smiles... I don't blame you...

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That was a really neat story. A guardian angel used their wings that day.

yes they did... very much so...

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Guardian at Angels 20... For a moment I thought it was going to be time travel, but ghost stories work just as well.

*laughs... they rather go hand in paw don't they?

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In a way, they are the same thing. It's the mechanism that makes the difference. And sometimes the motives.

Oh, this is just beautiful. The narrator even sounds about right
for a Vietnam war story.

*smiles so very big... thank you so very much...

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You've a special kill for telling these sorts of stories, and this one came together wonderfully. Its clear how much research and attention to detail you've poured into it too. The scenes after the pilot's instrument panel was blown out were especially tense.

Gives the Cat a big hug... you are so kind to this old Fox...

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(Just noticed the typo in my first sentence, meant to say 'skill'.)

*Returns the hug*

*chuckles...

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Cute story. Reminds me of this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shepherd.

In my early Hog days, we were mentored by veteran Spad pilots. Whooo...the stories they’d tell! I had one crusty old Major tell about the time he was running thru a valley near the Cambodian border, rounded a bend and found himself face to face with an NVA convoy. Thinking with his spine, rather than his head, he hosed off a willie pete 2.75” rocket that hit the lead vehicle dead center in the radiator and essentially turned the vehicle inside out.

Then there was the guy who’d chug a shot, pour another on his chest and light it. His call sign was “Growth.” (He looked like a...growth.)

I grew up in a MUCH different Air Force. Example of today’s: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/433096/.

Meh.

note coming...

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