Gen Yeager regaled me these stories tonight:
1. I was thinking about the time Bob Hoover took Colleen, his wife, for her first airplane ride with him when they were courting. They ended up in the trees. The farmer, who owned those trees, came out with a pitchfork and yelled: “I hope you killed yourselves.” And Colleen went on to marry Bob. Don’t know if she flew with him again
2. Right after Bob & Colleen got married, I picked them up w/ my infant son Mickey and we drove to Edwards – took about 3 days. We couldn’t afford a motel, so first night we slept in graveyard. Mickey & I in the car; Bob & Colleen slept with a blanket between the gravestones. Because of where he was, Bob was running thru the graveyard having nightmares.
c. GCYI