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A lucky, lucky bastard.By Abby Johnson, League of Women Voters of Northern NevadaĬARSON CITY - The League of Women Voters of Northern Nevada, in partnership with Sierra Nevada Forums, AAUW Capital (NV) Branch, and the Brewery Arts Center, will present a series of election forums on October 7, 10, 11 and 17 beginning at 6 pm each night at the Brewery Arts Center Performance Hall, 511 W. As his plane dipped towards the sea, the narrator heard Fin saying over the radio, “I’m a lucky bastard. He said that his arms had been shot and he couldn’t undo his straps. “You’d better jump.” “It’s not so easy,” Fin replied. One on of the last flights, the narrator saw Fin’s plane catch fire. It wasn’t until he saw Paddy killed that he found himself saying, “You lucky bastard.” That’s when he remembered it all.Īfter Fin’s story, the squadron returned to normal. This dreaming became reality, and he was unable to remember about the cloud and the pilots and the light. He dreamed about his mission, and then about landing at the squadron. He went to sleep and began to dream about his normal life. He found himself back in the white cloud, and he gave up his struggle.
He tried to commit suicide by crashing the plane or ejecting, but something prevented him. He grew desperate as the plane continued to fly away from it. Fin gazed longingly at the light, knowing that if he had landed he would have been running towards it. Fin came in for a landing but his plane wouldn’t touch down. As he descended further, he saw the the planes were all landing on the green plain. He wanted to fly towards it but the plane wouldn’t respond. Fin saw a beautiful green plain below them, which “reached to the far edges of the horizon where the blue of the sky came down and merged with the green of the plain.” He also saw in the distance a bright white light, far bigger than the sun but without shape or form. He felt supremely happy.Įventually the line of planes began to dive and bank to the left. The pilots on either side of him waved and he waved back. Fin found that he wasn’t even flying and that all the controls were dead. He somehow knew that “these were the pilots and air crews who had been killed in battle, who now, in their own aircraft were making their last flight, their last journey.” His own plane was caught up in a wind vortex of some kind and soon took its place in the line. He saw a line of aircraft flying on the horizon, as far as the eye could see. Suddenly the cloud disappeared, and he found himself flying in an endless sky of blinding blue. He didn’t hit land or sea though he just kept diving. He tried everything to get out of it, and eventually he just put his plane into a dive in frustration. He says that while he was flying his mission, he was suddenly enveloped in a thick white cloud. Immediately Fin’s voice is heard on the radio: “I’ve remembered it… I’ve remembered it all.” When the men return to the base, Fin tells his story. A pilot called Paddy is shot down and killed. The men decide to give him some time so he can try to remember.Ī week later, the entire squadron is out attacking an enemy aerodrome. He gets upset when he can’t explain what happened to him. It’s only when he goes to report to the commanding officer that he realizes he really has been gone for two days. According to him, he’s only been gone for an “hour and five minutes”.
It turns out to be Fin, who lands and acts surprised when they ask him where he’s been. Two days later, an airplane is heard approaching the base. They inform the other pilots and officers that Fin is missing and discuss his girlfriend Nikki, a caberet singer in Haifa. Eventually they realize that he should have been back by now, and even if he hadn’t been shot down, he’d have run out of gas. As the story begins, he and another pilot (“The Stag”) are waiting for the return of Fin, who flew out to check on some enemy ships. Spoiler warning! The narrator of this story is an RAF pilot fighting the Vichy French in Palestine during WW2. “They Shall Not Grow Old” read by Cillian Murphy.Ladies Home Journal (v62 #3) - March 1945.The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl.Over to You: Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying.Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying.
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