Excerpt from Love’s Amazing Grace
“That little tail hook is supposed to slow your jet and help it stop, but you must have lost it in combat.”
“Don’t know. Only know it was gone,” Jack chuckled.
“Your bomber ran smack-dad into all the docked planes before it stopped and you couldn’t aim it any other direction. What an explosion! Started several planes on fire, including yours. Made Captain Buckmaster a little upset.”
“More than a little upset,” Jack slapped his knee. “Thought I was headed straight into the ocean.”
“You’re lucky we got you out in time. You could have been burnt to a crisp.”
Jack suddenly turned somber, his quirky grin gone. “Yeah. I know.”
“It had to be really scary,” said one of the guys. “Bombs exploding and planes shooting at you.”
Both men nodded. “We thought we were going to die out there,” Jack admitted. Continue reading Haunting Memories
