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Old 02-13-2019, 13:37   #1
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Happy B'day Chuck Yeager

Escaped to the town PO after hand-processing 17"+ of snow the last 24 hrs; ran into wife of an old compadre who it turns out had passed last week at 76. Good man, RVN vet, solid planner, and never popular with PC-officers when he became a civilian. A Soldier always. You'll be missed Tony.

And then in the next moment came across an item that today is Chuck Yeager's 96th birthday. Damn, man! Happy Birthday Sir and thanks for still walkin' the planet with us! The contrast made me smile.


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"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done."

"You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up."
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Escaped to the town PO after hand-processing 17"+ of snow the last 24 hrs; ran into wife of an old compadre who it turns out had passed last week at 76. Good man, RVN vet, solid planner, and never popular with PC-officers when he became a civilian. A Soldier always. You'll be missed Tony.

And then in the next moment came across an item that today is Chuck Yeager's 96th birthday. Damn, man! Happy Birthday Sir and thanks for still walkin' the planet with us! The contrast made me smile.


Some favorite quotes:

"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done."

"You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up."
96 years old, Happy Birthday General! This is my Chuck Yeager story. After the Right Stuff came out and I knew who Chuck Yeager was I thought it would be nice to get him as a speaker for our local Veterans Day dinner. I got a hold of directory assistance out in California and much to my surprise his phone number was still listed in the phone books. I called the number and discovered that the General was in much greater demand after the movie and I did not get to visit with him and he never spoke at our dinner. But I had the most wonderful visit with his wife Glennis, Mrs. Yeager passed in 1990.
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