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Veterans

PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. What a wonderful story.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Fri Jul 21, 2017, 11:20 PM

Jul 2017

About 20 years ago my husband and I took some sort of sight-seeing flight in the San Francisco bay area on a DC-3. It might have been Otis Spunkmeyer, which seems to have ceased such operations.

On that flight was a man who'd bought his father a ticket and had paid a premium for Dad to fly jumpseat in the cockpit, because in WWII Dad had flown DC-3's over "the hump" in India. Needless to say, Dad was thrilled beyond belief, and he insisted his son take the jumpseat for part of the flight.

It would have been a wonderful flight even without the added treasure of the WWII vet, and this story reminds me of that.

Thanks for posting.

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