The Presidential
Weave à la Gaga
by Vincent Barry
“.
. . like, like heroes. They’re American
heroes. Who the heck wants to sit? You know,
those ships are very big, but they’re very
small.When you’re way up high going very
fast, and he said it was the greatest day of his
life, and they told me something I didn’t
know. ‘Sir, we waited twenty-two years for
this and our predecessors and us would practice
this run for twenty-two years. I didn’t know
but for twenty-two years we would have to
practice. We would do it three times a year,
because they cancelled when they heard we were
coming. We were devastated.’ ‘I see,’
I say, ‘If I were a flyer and they cancelled
I’d be extraordinarily happy. Well, we’re
cancelled, so let’s forget it.’ ‘But
we were devastated.’ So I said, ‘This
is something you really love.’ ‘Yes,
sir, we’re so honored. It was the greatest
day of our lives. I mean it was really great.’
. . . We have incredible people in the sky. It’s
an amazing story. And they hit, and they
skedaddle. The word skedaddle. And the plane went
like this WHIRRRR! You know, when it drops a bomb
it goes very steeply because they get a better
angle and, you know, more speed for the bomb—a
very, very heavy bomb and they go BOOM! As soon
as those things—the one pilot—the first
was it?—skedaddle! And the thing turned on
its side. I mean it’s unbelievable . . . .”
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