Alan C. Mack
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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I walked off between two B-huts.
B-huts are like these plywood barracks that you stay in.
I was in the dark, and I just sort of slumped down and cried.
And I didn't want anybody to see me.
But so a couple of days later,
I'm flying back to the States and they sent a crew chief with me, one of the very junior guys.
It's like, I'll go with Mr. Mac.
You'll be all right.
You know?
So we stopped in the Netherlands on the way back.
And so I say, Hey, let me buy you a beer.
So we're sitting there and he goes, Hey sir, I got to ask you,
how come you weren't scared?
He goes, when we went on that first mission, he goes, I was scared shitless.
I was like, I was too.
He's like, but it didn't seem that way.
I was like, well, would it have been any better?
He's like, no.
The rest of it, I'm sorry, I tear up a little bit.
It's emotional.