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And he said Mama I 'm home

I didn 't know what I was going for or anything so was to report to a designated place in Washington

He didn 't get to go

And I was like OK and that was it

I was just there just trying to figure it out

And uh they kind of actually stopped visiting the family because they were just just determined that they were going to be white

And Granny used to tell the story about how her sister and her sister 's husband decided that they were going to move to the city to Augusta and pass for white

Michael Santo of of Firewell and Company of Buffalo NY they was the one that uh manufactured uh invented the high O2 regulator before that they built fire control on the stove well

But he was you know in a lot of ways just like a plantation owner 's son because he was the son of this guy who owned a lot of property

But my job was to put parachutes on it and life preservers when we would load it and start to an overseas location

Now that 's how uh I stay buckled in

And he was a philanderer an d oh yeah he was like out there And ah so you know I didn 't like him but anyway those are my stories

When I pull when he pulls the canopy for me to start getting him out he points to two instruments on the left side of the aircraft that had actually melted during the flight

And she didn 't really understand

Maybe she told everyone else and I wasn 't paying attention at that particular time

Only lost two three aircraft while we was there and uh test phase

I need you to do something for me

Different totally different types parachutes and in an bird that flies uh three times the speed of sound over 22000 miles an hour

It was uh which we uh had Rudolph Anderson in a a formulation of three U2 's

She was still in there

Also oh let me go through this

But all of a sudden we was called out to look at what was flying

He would tear the the paper up and put it in the sand ashtray sand set it on a fire and burn it and then stir the ashes up like that

Um You need to call Ramona at Concord mind you she 's at an office actually she 's in a client all the way across town we 're in Monroe she 's in Concord

That 's kind of unique in that I uh spent uh about 16 years of my career in Special Activities

I think that 's why I remember that

And it makes you feel just awful

You don 't have to stay there

That was that was a pretty scary day

Uh well it 's uh the speeds got faster faster and faster until we deployed overseas

So well I uh anyway uh uh this is the three uh U2 pilots that uh President Kennedy 's office in Washington with General May

Before you give me a spanking why don 't you just let me have one big glass of chocolate milk first

And then once you get everything entered you can go on from there

But uh think about it

They took Joe with them and my Granny said she said it was such a sad time in the house because you know everybody was missing Joe and they didn 't know what to do

The part was there was 158 parts to it and we had to break it down put it back together break it down and never make a mistake

I don 't want to go into the Third SS that 's Third Strategic Support Squadron

It wasn 't nothing but a desert there was sagebrush out on the runway

He didn 't say a time again so he just got me over there stressing out and I really don 't even know when it 's needed

He is from Greece and he is from a small village in Greece called Tokalleka and he came to America and I believe it was 1969 or 1970 and he shortly got married

So anyhow I call Ramona back because I had a question about I was like All right let me hurry up on with it and I had a question about something I was doing

Little things like that made a big difference in what I was trying to do

Well there 's nobody there to help me

The CIA unloaded the the film taken them to the United Nations the next day

I already told him I tried to explain to him that I was frustrated I didn 't have all the information I needed

That 's why I didn 't graduate college but I never I never read any of the books I was supposed to

Um and so they just left town and she she never did see her sister again never saw her sister again

So Granny got up and she kind of walked down the steps off the porch and she was walking up towards the road and she then just stood there

The story I shall talk about today is about my father and the culture diversities he had when he moved to America

It was still cultural area but suburbs was still the dominant form

And then I heard him leave so I 'm still finishing what I had to do

And they found this house or this apartment building or whatever it was that they could live in and it was right on the edge of Broad Street

It would not explode without the trigger

And so when they told her she had to go home with this guy she said Go home with him

And our father always told us not to say they are animals

I don 't care if you don 't know anything about it

Even though I don 't see how he could have expected me to have it done

I never did see and don 't know yet why unless it was just ex ex expressing the the the need to know what you was a doing and whatever

They asked a few questions and I answered them and they said Get your baggage and leave there immediately and come to the address you were supposed to when you arrived in Washington

Come to find out it was a U2 aircraft but we couldn 't we could not say one word about what it was nothing to our wives kids or anybody

If if your hand was exposed outside of the pressure suit your hands would go to about five times the size if you had a decompression

Is there any reason why she didn 't tell you

They had wound up starting out to New York to visit some relatives of this this cousin and they just stayed and he didn 't know how to get back so he just stayed with them

No it was just that one time in the morning and she said that she was going to come back to the office

We didn 't know what a U2 was and nobody knew anything about a U2

My grandmother was born in 1910 she was a little girl

So he stayed in Augusta after that

Anyway it got up to we had about uh ah I don 't remember the numbers

Anyhow so I finished came home at 6 30 today and that was my day

And so she sat back down and you know they were still chatting and they could still see this person and this person was walking really really fast

And uh if it surged and just kept surging it would go ' whish ' and like it was going to pull your head off

I don 't have enough information

I 'll call you back in about an hour he says

Of course they questioned me there why I went

I had to start training in course

Well anyway I went back to my my desk

Now that 's how classified it was

They didn 't want to stay captive

So it took me like an hour to two hours just to find what I needed

Physiological support differs from life support in that he handles the altitude chambers which run pilots up to 80 thousand feet in high altitude chambers and brings him back down

And uh they moved downtown and there was uh and it 's still like this in Augusta this big street downtown called Broad Street and it really was just this broad street in a downtown area

That was my messed up

She 's like But you need to look here look here she 's gives me like three different places to look in the computer

oh it was Snake River oh Snake River with a lot of snakes in it

yeah i have a credit union

exactly it 's it 's an active state it 's not something that you can kind of you know be passively involved in and expect to do any good really i don 't think

and that what i think is gonna be really interesting is what we do about it i mean we are gonna have to change the people who represent us

and they can be very nice too after after they 've been trained

and it can go on for ten twenty years i i think this is a little ridiculous

yeah you you must 've had a cordless

are you saying the teachers or the parents

besides i probably would look at something uh maybe a a V six

well i guess it would i guess so well i don 't know i i i really haven 't sorted out all my feelings on the drug testing uh i 'm totally straight would never consider using drugs

care about how the national news affects the local area

but no we usually you know skirt and skirt and blouse or suit or dress is is what you see down here so it 's nice with me working at home because i can wear pants

yeah there there 's something about having a place to live i don 't know

yeah yeah i you know i i wouldn 't even mind so much if they had a um corporation that is financed

yeah it 's ours up here we have our rural connections are real bad

and uh i kind of kind of like the black eyed pea but i don 't think it 's a chain

but on the other hand we 've eaten a lot of raccoon and possum and turtle all kinds of