Thanks for the BOOM

[A4sForever]

WOWSA, WOWSA !!!!

Today ... while drivin' past the old bombing range @ Boardman ... I was mentally drifting and lost in some long ago thoughts of B.J. and Bill, who had died there when the wing came off their bird on the 7th dive bombing run -- the same plane I had flown the day before, doing the same mission -- and thinking about the 3 days we spent on the range, walking the crash site ... searching for anything ... we found Bill's wedding ring ...

WHEN SUDDENLY MY MELANCHOLY WAS BROKEN BY THE UNDERSIDE AND SOUND OF AN A-6 BOOMIN' THE COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE ... (O.K. ... make that an EA-6, but it looked good and looked the part when his belly was turned toward me ... ) .... he was up ... he was down ... he was yankin' and bankin' ... he was haulin' ass ... then he popped up on the Washington side and kept on goin' in the general direction of Whidbey ... probably talkin' to SEA Center for a radar pick-up ...

It was a perfect moment.

But no matter what it was ... I considered it a moment for 'me' and a salute for my dead squadron mates ...

Thanks, whoever it was ... :thumbup_1:thumbup_1

 

[rare21]

I lift up my glass to them A4s.....to our brothers.

 

[sodajones]

Here's to them who walked before us!


84 on the Gorge is always fun and beautiful to drive through.