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Show ROBERT THAYER R3 2 2 BEC: ROB: BEC: Absolutely. Do you need to answer that phone? No, I think my wife will get it, or my daughter up tair . I h p Okay. ROB: So many of them are unidentified. I've ID on there. They got it no they haven't. Back to that little old chaplain, he wrote this book, and it became kind of a bible to our whole organization. [phone ringing] Oh, for heck's sakes. By the time I get there they'll be gone. [pause] I don't recognize- BEC: ROB: BEC: got some sleep. ROB: Oh, it's nobody you know? No. Now you didn't tell me when you actually did go to bed, when you Oh. Gee, I am disconnected here. Well, after I got through briefing, why we'd go to the airmen's mess, and I'd eat again, and then I'd go to bed about, oh, four or four-thirty. Then I'd sleep till about eight, and then get up and go through the day routine after that. But I went to bed fairly early at night. I've always been-and still dol always went to bed around nine o'clock, because I knew I'd be getting out of bed in the middle of the night. But do you know, I often thought that kind of sleep is not good. And I used to think, Oh, boy, I'll be glad when I get home, and I can go to bed, and stay there the whole night. But I have nothing to complain about. I was so fortunate to have the position, and to be with these people, and to get through it without any problems. I really feel like I was fortunate. And, like I said, it was one of the most hectic, hardest work, and we were going-Sundays didn't mean anything, you know-we went twenty-four hours a day, and you went seven days a week. We got passes once a month, a forty-eight hour 34 |