Chuck Yeager & Jean Pierre Jolie 2008 = 64 years later
General Yeager’s words:
March 8, 1944.
Six year old Jean and I played soccer.
Then he took me to a little lake where we fished. I’m alert.
The Germans are still on the prowl looking for me.
I learn that the plane of the Germans who shot me down came down in a field just a few miles away. The German’s parachute didn’t open. It all feels a little too close for comfort. But we’re in the woods and each day I quietly explore to check out as many escape routes as I can.
If I am caught, not only I, but this family too, would be tortured and killed.
They are truly risking their necks for me and I sure appreciate it.
I wonder what’s next.
c. GCYI