Posted: 9/8/2006 5:46:13 PM EDT
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I was sitting on a bench in Bothell eating ice cream with my daughters when a Mustang GT pulls up and parks in the handicap zone in front of us. I notice the license plate was "xxS P51". I'm thinking "P-51 plate on a Mustang, that's pretty cool..." An older gentleman gets out wearing a P-47 cap and I ask him "are you a fighter pilot?" He says "Yep" and I say "Thanks" as he walked on into the grocery store. When he came out of the QFC, he stopped to show me a picture of his Pacific Theater P-51 Mustang he carries in his wallet. He said he didn't have a picture of his P-47 with him. As he left I said "glad to see you're still in a Mustang." He said "Me too!" I'm glad these guys are still around. {spelling edit} |
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, not exactly a Mustang story, but, A few weeks ago I was in the grocery store, doing my shopping. There was an old, bent with age, white-haired couple coming the other way, and the wife was looking at something on a low shelf, and inadvertantly turned her cart out, blocking the isle. I wasn't in a hurry, so I just stopped and quietly waited for her to move. Her husband saw the situation, and rolled his eyes in that timeless way, as if to apologise for her. I just smiled, but then noticed that he was wearing a baseball cap with "B29" and a pin that looked like a pair of pilots wings. When she moved and started down the isle, and he came by me I asked him "Were you Superfortress crew ? He said "Yep" I said "Thank you Sir, for what you did" He looked at my graying temples, reached out and shook my hand, and said "You're welcome, Son." He walked away, standing tall and proud, , and I walked away with a tear in my eye.  God Bless them all. |
| I did a transport of a little old guy from a nursing home to the hospital last week. He had some pretty cool Military pics up in his area. I asked him about them and could not get him to shut up. I really wish that ride to the hospital could have dragged out for an hour or longer, because I would really would have liked to hear everything he had to say. |