More Drago Wisdom!

George Drago (the guy who was the pilot of my last mission in Vietnam) ... did I ever tell you story about my last flight in a Hawk?  It was a really dumb thing to do - fly a mission on your last day in-country! - but how else was I to get toe Cam Ranh to catch my flight home?  Anyway, George sent some quotes below to me.  But now for the short story of my last day in-country....I did a flight-follow mission, and George (Mr. Drago then) gave me a special going away present of a buzz of a radome somewhere off the coast near Nha Trang.   Not the low flight over the Company Area as was the custom for DEROSing pilots, but it was close enough...I don't think there was any of the Navy's (or whoever owned the radar site) white paint transfered to the belly of of our OD green aircraft...but it more than qualified in this 22 year old's mind as a bone-fide low pass!  Thanks again Mr. Drago!

And here is some more wisdom from an email George sent me this morning.  Thanks George!

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, “Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.”

-   Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)

   

I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: - “No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.”  

- Eleanor Roosevelt  

   

Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.. 

- Mark Twain

  

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.

- George Burns

   

Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.

- Victor Borge

    

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

- Mark Twain

   

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

- Socrates

    

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

- Groucho Marx

    

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

- Jimmy Durante

   

I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

   

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.

- Alex Levine

    

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

- Rodney Dangerfield

     

Money can’t buy you happiness .... But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

- Spike Milligan 

    

Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP.

- Joe Namath

    

I don’t feel old. I don’t feel anything until noon. Then it’s time for my nap.

- Bob Hope

    

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it…

- W. C. Fields

      

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. 

- Will Rogers 

   

Don’t worry about avoiding temptation.   As you grow older, it will avoid you.

- Winston Churchill

    

Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty... But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

- Phyllis Diller

    

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.

- Billy Crystal

    

And the cardiologist’s diet: - If it tastes good spit it out.