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That night I left my friends on line and made a mad nervous dash over to shake the the hand of the first man who on October 14th 1947, less than a month after the U.S. Air Force had been created as a separate service broke the sound barrier.

I remember walking right up, almost just taking his hand in mine to shake and thanking him for sending me an autograph picture twenty years earlier, that still hangs in my apartment when I joined the civil air patrol.

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He asked me what my flight status was, I thought for a second and said I definitely had the right stuff when it came to model building and roll playing about the exploits of others, but I rather write about those making history like you sir.

The man standing next to him laughed, and Yeager looked at him and said "he wants your job", and I soon left. I do remember hearing the man say to Yeager, "and you thought no one would recognize you."

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Its when I joined the group I was with they all wanted to know what did I talk about with Tom Wolfe, who was the man standing next to Yeager, and I had no idea what Wolfe look like at the time, but I only had my eyes on the master of the skies, when we had real hero's to look up to.

and so it goes....