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Show JOH B. ODDARD EPTEMB R 30 2004 and if you turned it off you'd have a hard time starting it. But when you did start it you d think you were behind a Mack truck. It would just spew this stuff out. o th first two or three times that I drove up to the gate the guards would come up and check me out before they'd let me through. I'd leave them in this ball of smoke. So about the third or fourth time the guards would see me coming ... (gestures waving-through). Then Gerry came home and I went up to Madigan Hospital. Now while I was in Madigan Hospital, we'd spend time playing Bridge. We'd play for a penny a point or something like that. But I was winning quite a little bit of money. I had a great partner. Well, I'd better finish the other story. When I was at the hospital in California, Gerry got pregnant, and she had to come home. So I spent time there and then went up to Madigan. The baby was born, a little girl. (When she) was about two months old, my father-in-law called me and said, "Jack, I hate to tell you this, but they've taking your little girl to the hospital." And he said, "And my father." And his father was in his eighties or something. He said, "I thought if you could get home, it'd be nice because she's seriously ill." So I went over to Red Cross and said, "I understand that you have a plane that flies from here over to Hill Air Force Base," and they said, "Yes." And I said, "Can I get on it? My baby's ill," and they'd already confirmed that. And they said, "Yes, you can get on it." So, I said, "Fine. When does the plane go out?" And they said, "Ten o'clock the next morning." So I was over there at nine o'clock and this girl form the Red Cross called me and she said, "Well, Captain Goddard, we like people to be honest. We don't like people to deceive us." And she went on like that and I said, "You're giving me a lecture on honesty. What is your point?" And she said, "Well, Mr. Goddard, we know your baby died last night so there's no critical need for you to go home so soon. So we're not going to let you go on 31 |
