The small businessman's Evensong

"Now I lay me down to sleep,

I've sold enough to pay for the Keep,

Should I die before I wake,

I pray (why the Hell didn't I finish that bottle of  '03 Ravenswood Sonoma Valley Cabernet)

It's been a good day for WillBoat.

Goodnight Chet, Goodnight Ed, Goodnight, World (and back when those words were uttered on NBC every night, it WAS a Good Night, because USAF General (CinC SAC) Curtis LeMay and his successors saw to it, and stalwart men held the thin nuke line, but it was good enough to keep the USA safe, and still would be (had not Bill Clinton closed out SAC). I was on that thin nuke line late in those days, and I'm proud to have done my part.

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[Windy Wilson]

I used to work with a retired Air Force Chief Master Sergeant. He was in Korea when things busted loose and everyone got squeezed down to the Pusan Perimeter, and he was at Minot ND and had a crew to work on the B-52's when it was so cold each man went out,turned the wrench a turn and went back to hand it to the next mechanic. He was also in Thailand when Air America (or someone) came in with the loads of nitro, and flying around DC when Kennedy was assassinated. He also lost 13 teeth when the helicopter he was crew chiefing (is that a word?) landed and a VC jumped out of some bushes and hit him with the butt of a real AK-47.
A stalwart man, and I miss him.