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This one goes waaay back. My wife, Mary Alice, found it in an old filing cabinet I hadn't opened in years. Question to you: who are they? *Answer at the bottom of the page.


Given the snow we've had here in the east, I thought this one was appropriate:
And this guy was just trying to find the hangar!


I've had other pictures of these guys tending to business, but this shot of a tanker attacking a wildfire is beyond it all. Hope those guys in the foreground didn't mind a soaking.


Check your speedometer. Now!!



*The young men in the black and white photo are Mercury Astronauts Scott Carpenter (L) and John Glenn (R). The year was 1962. I suspect John's choice of music is the album on the left, Yellow Bird by Arthur Lyman.




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