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Many layers of clouds.
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I saw the missile launch...
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Roger, roger. Out of the aircraft, down.
Vega-31, Vega-31, going down. 31 is going down.
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The first American F117 stealth bomber
crashed during NATO air raids on Yugoslavia
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Oh dear god, keep him safe,
just keep him safe...
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Good morning. It's very early. It's a beautiful
spring day in early May and here we are in
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the dining room. I've been asked to prepare
some video diaries of the Zelkos.
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So come on, let me go show you why,
one of the main reasons why it's so
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difficult for me to leave my home
every morning to go off to work.
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Yellow shirt today.
Shaved last night.
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Hello, hello bird.
Hello, hello bird.
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Time to head out. Oh, boy, come on.
I really must get a new flag up there.
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I knew that Dale would be deployed.
Before they deployed, the wives had had...
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they had a dinner or function for all the
wives just to get together. And informed us
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that if something happened to our husbands
they'd come to our homes and tell us in person.
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[phone ringing]
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So this was the fourth night of the war. We
have planned two waves of F117s, I was on
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the first wave and there was also going to
be some B2 stealth bombers coming through
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later on that night. They had cancelled all
NATO air strikes, so all NATO strike packages
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were cancelled that night because of the
weather. Extremely challenging weather night.
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So the only game in town, as they say, were
the LO guys, the low observable guys. I have
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already done my mission study, target study,
and prep for that, but so strong on my mind was,
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you know what, if there was ever a night,
if there was ever a mission for an F117 to
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get shot down, this is the night
and my mission's the one.
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Saturday morning came.
I woke up very disturbed.
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I did get my target. That night was very
challenging because of the weather and
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many layers of clouds, off target headed
west for about a minute 40 seconds or so
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and then the aircraft turned a very
aggressive turn to the northwest.
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As soon as I rolled out of that turn, I started
looking outside for the known threat systems.
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So just after I roll out, I'm looking, a quick
look around, and a quick look at right 4 o'clock,
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and there they were.
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I didn't see the missile launch because of
the low bottom layers of clouds.
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But I saw two missiles punch out from
that bottom layer of clouds and as
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soon as I saw those missiles,
I thought they got me.
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Good afternoon. Here we are, finished with
the work and on our way home. Hurray!
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I see our post, mailbox.
I'm getting home just as the others are.
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There's Keegan bouncing the tennis ball.
They've just gotten home.
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Mollie... Hurray, hurray.
Keegan's noticing that I'm filming.
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There's Torin in the woodshed.
Let me see if I can keep this going and...
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manage to turn the car off and escape my
prison. Hello, hello! Hello, Nutboy!
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Hello Molly-cholly-lollypop. Hello Torin,
Shea Zelko. I'm a-going in the...
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Hello little fellow. Are you a leprechaun?
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle
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lamzy divey a kiddley divey too wouldn't
you? Mairzy doats and dozy doats and
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liddle lamzy divey a kiddley divey
too wouldn't you? What is this contraption?
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- Hello my beautiful bride.
- Yeah, beautiful bride with this...
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- Let's have a kiss.
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I was in the absolute worst possible
body position for an ejection.
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This is really, really,
really bad.
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The next memory I have is being in the
ejection seat, out of the cockpit,
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and I see the cockpit and the aircraft falling
away from me. I can see the lights in the cockpit,
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all the warning and caution, you know,
red and yellow lights falling away.
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But then all these other thoughts,
are on my mind as I'm still in the seat.
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One is, again in a very light,
humorous sort of way, you know,
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my mom is not gonna
be happy about this.
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So I thought about my mom,
I thought about my daughter.
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And again, in this light, humorous sort
of way, I imagined being on the ground
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kicking the dirt, and saying:
"Nuts, isn't this inconvenient".
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I might not be able to call my daughter tomorrow
on her birthday, and she was going to turn 10.
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How come I'm still in the seat? Had my hand
on this handle on the ejection seat that you
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can pull that manually opens up the lap belt
and you can try to wiggle yourself out of
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the seat and push the parachute
out of the top of the seat.
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Now give it another few seconds -- one potato,
two potato, three potato, four potato -- BAM!
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The seat pops me out, parachute deploys, inflates
and I'm hanging under the canopy of the parachute.
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Look down, thought OK, I got my stuff. Oh,
survival vest looks like I got all my stuff,
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still had my oxygen mask on, took that threw
it away, visor was gone, that makes sense
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it got blown off, check canopy and my
first reaction was "Yes, perfect canopy".
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No malfunctions at all, and then my second
thought again in this light and humorous
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sort of way is "You have got to be kidding."
An orange and white panel parachute.
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Glowing like a Chinese lantern.
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Here I am flying in a single ship, not talking,
not squawking, there's good chance nobody
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knows this just happened. So, the
rescue time is the most critical element.
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So I thought, you know what,
I need to get on the radio, now.
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So I got out my survival radio about
one minute after I was under canopy.
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I'm hanging in the canopy, coming
down, probably 7 or 8 thousand feet
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above the ground and I got out my survival
radio and I started making mayday calls.
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And I just said "Mayday, mayday, mayday,
Vega-31's going down."
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Mayday, mayday, mayday, Vega-31
Mayday, mayday, mayday, Vega-31
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Vega-31, Vega-31, going down.
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So I start to make these calls and
I got no response.
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31 is going down.
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So I wanted at least to get out that hey
I was out of the aircraft and I'm alive.
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Vega-31 last position in aircraft was approximately
a point after target.
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At that exact moment I was on the couch crying
and praying, and just really crying out to
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God, please God, let him live, just please,
bring him home, let him live. Of course, I
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had no way of knowing that something was wrong
but I just felt this total sense of dread
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and I was so overcome, just screaming in my
home to please, please, bring him home, that
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I loved him so much and I just
want him to be OK.
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Roger, roger, out of the aircraft, down.
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Soon after this, the phone rang. I knew that
it was not good information, I had one of
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those gut feels that people sometimes get
and you just know that the phone is ringing
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for a bad reason.
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[phone ringing]
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Oh dear God, keep him safe,
just keep him safe.
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At any rate, the general basically told me
that we had lost a plane and that it was
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Dale's plane. The good news, as he said,
was that we knew he was alive and that
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he had ejected safely from the plane. And
of course, they didn't know where he was.
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There was some, they knew he had made the
ejection and he had made this radio call
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but they had no idea of knowing at that
point was he on the ground safely, was he
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already captured, very unclear
of his status.
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Dear Lord, please let him live,
just let him live.
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So it was hard to see
that on the news.
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Here we are again, on the way home now.
Some of the other things that I have with me,
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that I'm surrounded by in my car are
a voice recording of my wonderful, beautiful,
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blessed grandfather Joseph Ryan Sweeny
who, starting in 1970, started recording
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some of his thoughts and favorite music
and recording readings from passages
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from some of his favorite literature with
the intention that some day, posthumously,
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after he was long in heaven, that the
grandchildren and great-grandchildren
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and great-great-grandchildren would
have and enjoy. Let us listen.
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Hey, Lauren.
- Yes.
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- What time is it?
- It's little after 1 o'clock in the morning.
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- What are you doing?
- I am quilting
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This is the time of night
that I usually quilt.
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- Tell me what you're working on.
- I'm working on a quilt for Zoltan
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and Mrs Dani and we decided to do a quilt
for her. I don't know whose idea it was,
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mine or yours? Do you know?
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Yeah, Keegan Patrick Shea Zelko, my son,
my beautiful beloved son would like to
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play something. He wanted me to introduce
this, he said he was too shy, but...
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Keegan's gift to the Serbian people.
And, what are you going to play?
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I'm very close to traveling to Serbia for
the second meeting, and I hope that
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Zoltan and I, and Zoltan's family and my
family become very good friends.
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I hope so. Maybe we won't
like each other.
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OK, we're gonna talk about my trip tomorrow
to Serbia, my second time to Serbia.
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- Yes, your second time to Serbia.
- What happened the first time?
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Got shot down.
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Vega-31, Vega-31, going down.
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It's Tuesday morning, May 31, 2011 and I'm
packing, getting ready for my trip to Serbia.
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Why don't we take a quick
look around the house?
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Good morning, good
morning, good morning,
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you slept the whole night through,
good morning, good morning to you.
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- So here's Dale. He is ready to go.
The bags are packed.
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- Bag, bag, carry, carry.
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He's very excited. We're all a little
not excited, I think. Cause we
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don't like it when he goes
on trips. We miss him.
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Ignition,
blast off. Pull the rip cord. Parachute.
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Parachute.
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Excited? Ready to go?
Last minute thoughts?
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I've just departed my beautiful home
and my blessed family.
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On my way to Serbia
for the second meeting,
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so I'm driven to go,
I'm compelled to go,
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I must go and meet Zoltan under entirely
different circumstances. So come on.
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Well, here I am in my nation's capital,
Washington D.C. waiting for my flight
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and I have some very special friends that
my children made sure hopped in my pocket
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for this journey and I have some other
special friends and pocket notes. So,
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you thought I was traveling alone. Well,
I have my whole family with me and
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special friends. And, of course, God. Always.
I'm going to read this note from my bride.
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Again I'm reminded of the last time I flew
across the Atlantic Ocean was in a single
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seat stealth fighter F117.
There was no in-flight service.
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I have to tell the diary. We're very
close to landing in Belgrade.
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It's very exciting. Very soon,
Zoltan, I will be shaking your hand.
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Are we near Kovin? I'm starting to get
this swell of anxiety in my chest.
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- Yeah, we're near,
we're near.
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Oh boy. Is he there?
Is he in his bakery?
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Oh, what a beautiful morning,
Oh, what a beautiful day,
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I've got a beautiful feelin',
Everything's going my way.
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50 meters?
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Really? I'm really here?
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- Hello colonel...
- Hello Zelko.
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- Colonel Dani.
- Hi. Good to see you.
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- Are you have a good trip?
- You too, yeah.
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My grandfather always said
don't give anybody the wet noodle.
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- This is my bakery.
- You got flour on your face.
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- Yes, because working. You
working any more baker, no?
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- Do I do any baking?
No, but you can teach me.
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- OK.
- OK?
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Too much?
- Slowly, slowly. Yes. OK.
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- How's my touch?
- Very good.
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- Like this.
- Follow you? Same?
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Too gentle?
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This is not easy.
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This is baker Zelko
and Dani baker.
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- Yeah! I would like that.
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OK!
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OK.
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I like it.
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- Hello to you. Very
good to meet you.
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- Welcome to...
- Thank you.
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- Welcome in my house.
- Thank you.
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- This is my son Atila.
- Hello, Good to meet you.
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- How are you?
- Good.
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Come in, please.
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Now, try not to
blow this one off.
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Don't shoot this one.
- It's nice.
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And I have something for you,
from the Zelko family, my wife.
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Several months ago, when it appeared the idea
of Dale traveling to Serbia to meet Zoltan
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became a reality, I decided I would like to make
a quilt for you as a gesture of friendship.
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My search included several "friendship star"
patterns and I became focused on the idea of
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a star. A star represented so many things that
are appropriate to the quilt, to this meeting
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of our husbands, to Dale's shoot down, etc.
- So the star on your quilt represents friendship.
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It is my offer of friendship to you, a woman
I've never met, half way around the world
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who is connected to me through the military
shoot down of my husband's aircraft during war
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- Dale and I both served in our nation's
Air Force because we love our country
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I suspect Zoltan, too, and your family feel
pride in your nation.
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So, the star on your quilt reflects
the sense of patriotism.
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Dale was flying his F117 aircraft at night,
under the stars and the moon...
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- So the star on your quilt is for the night.
While Dale was evading on your soil...
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Many people were searching for him and
converging on him. There were Serbian
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military forces, Serbian citizens,
United States rescue forces...
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- So the star on your quilt represents Dale,
with many people converging on him.
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From this military event, Dale and
Zoltan have become well known.
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Again, the star represents both Dale and Zoltan.
- Across the lines of war
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- Across the lines of war
- A friendship is born.
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- Friendship is born
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- Hence your quilt's name: Many Roads Lead
to Friendship. I hope you will accept my
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offer of friendship and peace.
I hope the quilt will warm you;
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if not physically, then in
your heart. Enjoy!
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OK. All right. Let's talk about that night
and some of the details what I was doing
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and what you were doing.
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When it was my time for take off, off I went
out of Aviano Air Base, Italy, and then flew
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all the way across Slovenia, flew right over
the top of Ljubljana, where my grandmother
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and grandfather were born and raised
and then into Hungary for the air-refuel.
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This is the navigation...
speaking.
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We don't need navigation. My memory,
we'll just go on my memory.
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You said the aircraft, where the aircraft
came down was southeast?
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- And this too.
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- OK, so right over there.
- Yeah.
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I'm starting to get this great wave of
excitement, actually, because I've spent
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12 years telling people, when I visit and
share with people as a guest speaker,
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for 12 years I've been telling them I came
down maybe a mile, a mile and a half
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north of Budjanovci, Serbia.
So here I am.
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- This road now?
- Yes, this.
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We're close, we're very close.
This is a railroad track, right?
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Yes.
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- So this...
- This is the road.
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This is the bridge.
- OK. Right there is where I came down.
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OK. Where I came down under canopy should
be right there, right there, maybe right here.
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So where I came down under the parachute was
this close to the road and the railroad track.
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Slightly south of that T
intersection I came down,
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there was a really
stiff wind blowing
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from the southwest to the northeast, so I
turned the parachute into the wind and I was
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drifting back like this so I landed this way.
So I came down, I gathered in my parachute
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and I took off my harness and my helmet and
I secured all of that in the bottom of a
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freshly plowed farm furrow. Back then,
the furrows were running north-south,
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now they're running east-west.
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I remember that tree, should be right
here, there should be this shallow,
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north-south running irrigation ditch.
OK. Right here. This is it. This is it.
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- Here?
- Right here. Right here.
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Yeah, see the ditch?
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- Nice.
- Nice.
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- This is it, I can't believe it.
- How many time you was this?
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- This is where I stayed
the rest of the night.
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- Seven hours?
- Yea, almost seven hours.
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- This is the place, yes?
- This is absolutely the place
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and again all, all of...
- You remember, absolutely remember?
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- How can I forget? I lived seven hours
of, very intense seven hours of my life here
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- A helicopter?
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- The helicopters came in from the west
and they set down right there in this field,
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just to the west of this ditch. They landed
one rota arc away from where I was, so I
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came out just enough to put the signal flare,
exposed myself just enough so they could
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see the flare. They landed right there,
the pararescue men came out, grabbed me,
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in the helicopter and off we went. Twelve
years later, here I am. I don't believe it.
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So I came out of ditch at that point, I was
on the edge of the ditch in a farm field,
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in this low crouch, looking very non-threatening,
with my face in the helicopter and nothing
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is happening. I see these two shapes approach
me, they looked like aliens and I didn't see
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them until they were about ten feet away.
The PJ, as they're called, the PJ team lead,
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stuff sergeant Eric Chino, was the first one
to come up to me on this side and he grabs
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my shoulder of the jacket here and he tucks
me in like this, he says "How do you feel, sir?"
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very loudly and noise of the helicopter,
and I said "Great, let's get out of here."
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And he said, he said "Your PJs are
here to take you home."
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The day I was shot down, my mother was in
church praying, and she came out of the church,
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it was a Saturday, and she got in her car and
she turned on the radio and the first thing she
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heard on the radio was an F117 went down. And
she knew it was me, she just, she knew.
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And... She just knew. So she went right back
in church and spent several hours there.
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- How are you feeling?
- Hey, that's my stuff!
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Very nice shot, very
nice shot. Well done, Zoltan.
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Zoltan, I'd like to thank you for bringing
me here. It was very important for me that
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I connect as closely and as deeply as
possible with the Serbian people.
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It's a great moment to just pause and reflect
on exactly what you said. What really matters.
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What really is important... is our faith and
our humanity and our respect for one another.
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- Indeed there are many
roads to friendship
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You're gonna be competing with the
memory of my grandmother's apple strudel.
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Lots? Too much?
Tight? Very tight?
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The smell is very familiar. This smells
like my grandmother's apartment.
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My grandmother would be
very proud of this.
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- This is my favourite part.
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OK, I'm recording.
So here we are...
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Here I am with Zoltan and his whole family
to see me off back to United States,
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back to my family.
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You can see he's recording himself.
Here's the gang.
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Hello. Here we are, off the coast of Maine.
In the map, let's have a look in the map.
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I miss everyone in Serbia. Right there
is my home, my house, my family.
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We're on final approach for
landing in Washington D.C.
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We're home, we're home. We're almost
home. We're almost home.
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We are on River Road between
Goffstown and New Boston Village.
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Anybody, anybody? There
they are, at the door!
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I see Keegan. Look at that
boy, he's very happy.
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Hello friendly, hello nutboy. Hello. Hi boy. Where are
the others? Inside?
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- Yeah.
- Waiting?
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- Waiting to surprise you.
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Hello.
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After we moved from the
ramp at Aviano airbase,
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next thing is the ops group
commander and several
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of the other leadership huddled me by, next
to, a classified phone, top-secret secure
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phone and said General Wesley Clark, the supreme
allied commander forces Europe is going to
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call you. I thought "Wow, OK." And he did.
And we're on the phone together. And one of
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the very first... you know, welcomed me home,
glad to have you back, glad we got ya, but
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then the next thing he said to me was:
"You're clear to go do that media thing."
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And so I responded to him "Actually, sir,
I would like it to be just the opposite.
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I would, I do not want my name associated with
that event, I want to stay extremely low profile."
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Which also shocked him, I could tell. He was
silent and that my response was very unexpected
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to him and he then responded to me again with
something like "I'm not sure you understand
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what I'm saying," and I think he finally realized
"OK, this guy really, really means it," and
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he, again seemed to me frustratingly, very
reluctantly said in a very annoyed tone:
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"Well, OK, I guess it's your call."
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Finally, after being up for a very, very, very
long time, Colonel Bronco Stewart, who was
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sort of my escort, brought me back to my
room and said "Stay here. Don't go anywhere.
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Within the next, I think he said 10 hours, maybe
12 hours, the President's gonna call you."
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The phone rang. So I answered the phone and
this voice said "Is this the pilot?" and it
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made me smile. I thought, OK, the word got
back to the White House calling and they don't
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want to even say my name across the open and
unsecured line. I said "Yes, this is the pilot."
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He said, "This is Tony from the White House."
OK, Tony, how you're doing? And he said,
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"Stand by for the President." What I remember
most about the conversation with President
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Clinton is when he shared with me, and I can tell
in his voice, in his manner, in his tone,
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how deeply, deeply relieved he was that I
was rescued and not only worried for my safety
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in fellow American and harms way but also
because what it would have meant if I have been
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captured, if they had the ultimate price. Anyway,
when I also did ask him again for, you know
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I wanna stay very low profile from the media,
he said "You have full White House support"
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[music]
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Quickly after he was home, it became really
difficult because he wasn't ready, he just was
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still there. We were at two totally different
places. He was so unprepared to come home
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and I was so needing to be there for him, he
just mentally was still in Aviano and not at home.
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- Where's Rowan?
- Rowan's on the swing.
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OK, this is the ball game at the Zelkos'
home, everyone come on and watch.
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- Come on to the ball game!
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- What are the teams?
What are the teams?
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- Mommy and Keegan.
Versus poppa, Mollie, Torin.
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- Rowan is the cheering section
in the swing.
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- National anthem:
"Oh say can't you see..."
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- OK, we'll shorten that. Play ball!
Take me out to the ball game,
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take me out to the crowd, Buy me
some peanuts and cracker jack,
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I don't care if I ever get back.
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This is the home school teacher
and... tell us what is next.
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We home school and the children usually
have four days a week of school at home.
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And the public school systems
here have five days a week.
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And some of its sixty sharp teeth,
were up to seven inches long
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Get a ruler and measure out
seven inches.
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- Did I do a good job?
- Yeah
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- You're still pleased with
my tape job?
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But now there isn't
very much in my jewellry box.
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But I'm going to start...
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Yay!
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Hey Keegan, hey Mollie, hey Torin,
hey Rowan, hey Lauren.
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Isn't it a wonderful,
beautiful, glorious day?
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Isn't it a splendiferously
delightful day?
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Yes!
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Isn't it a heaven hurray
thank you God playday?
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Yes!
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Isn't it oh-my-Goodness-O day?
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Yes! Isn't it a fiddely-faddely-foodely - fiddely day?
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Yeah!
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Here is our church. Hello church
Hello community church.
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Give me a kiss..
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It is wood stacking season.
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"Zippity-doo-duh, zippity-yey, my, oh my,
what a wonderful day."
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01:07:41,719 --> 01:07:53,765
Good morning. It is the next morning on our
way to work. I just discovered I've introduced
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you to my grandfather Joseph Ryan Sweeny, Pops.
Another very interesting bit of his recordings.
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Neil Armstrong's first words as
he steps on the Moon."
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Home again, home again, jaggedy-jag. Hurray,
hurray, hurray. Oh, I really must put a new flag.
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- They're here!
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Oh my heart. My heart.
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- I'm home!
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- My brother!
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- Come on!
- Oh, my brother.
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- Oh, Zollie.
- How are you?
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Wonderful. So good to see you.
Welcome to our home.
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01:12:42,206 --> 01:12:43,106
Hello!
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Fantastic!
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- Hello
- Welcome to our home!
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01:12:56,687 --> 01:13:06,196
- It's so nice to meet you. It's so
exciting. This is Rowan. Rowan. Torin.
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- It's nice to meet you.
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Did you meet this one?
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- It's very exciting,
isn't it?
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There's somebody you haven't met yet.
Rowan is going to be a big sister.
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We have a baby coming. Yes!
- Very nice.
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- So meet the baby.
Come on in.
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- Dale, this is a special present.
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- One hand-made.
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From our ancestors.
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And she is giving to her, when you
put it on a table, you remember us.
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- Thank you for passing
that on to us.
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Beautiful!
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It's from natural cotton so
that's why it is...
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- Oh it's beautiful.
- that gray colour.
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- This has been in the family?
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- 50 years it's been in the family.
- Oh, it's beautiful.
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01:15:13,617 --> 01:15:15,812
A hah! Yeah yeah.
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- Nice.
- You know?
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01:15:19,641 --> 01:15:24,501
I know.
- What is this?
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It's a SA-3.
- Yes. Neva.
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Neva, yeah. From Zoltan to Dale. That's
nice. This is the collection of aircraft that
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represents my flying career in the force,
I did other things besides flying.
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These are all aircraft that I flew. This is
the missing peace from the collection so
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it needs to be in a place
of honor, I think so.
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- This is complete, yes?
- Perfect.
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01:16:00,949 --> 01:16:06,421
- And now this is our collection, yes.
- Yes, and now the collection is complete.
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01:16:06,421 --> 01:16:10,721
- It is complete.
- This was the missing piece.
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01:16:10,721 --> 01:16:15,000
- Yes, yes, yes. This is the missing
piece. It's complete. OK.
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For me the emotion started when he left
for war because I knew that he'd be flying
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very dangerous missions and that there was
a good chance that something would happen
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to him, so the day that he was shot down for
me was more about noontime that he got shot
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down and I had been in my house, lying on
my couch and, before they called, and I was
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crying and just praying that God
would keep him safe and...
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13 years and I'm still crying, it's crazy.
Because I know you understand, it's so
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frightening, there's so much fear to know that
your husband's in danger and I can imagine for you
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It's so unimaginable to me the terror of that.
I... it's... Oh, people shouldn't have to
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01:18:19,243 --> 01:18:28,391
go through that, shouldn't have to live that
way. Ah, I don't... I'm speechless; I don't
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know what to say about that I feel. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry that you had to live through that
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and I'm certain that you, that feeling of
fear never goes away, that's in your heart
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and will always come back
over and over.
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Family is everything; it's just
everything in our lives is our family.
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01:19:12,302 --> 01:19:14,821
Oh, I'm glad you're here.
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So, what do you think about my father
and your father were in a war and
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against each other, and now you and me
are playing? How do you feel about that?
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What's on your mind?
- It's incredible.
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How many?
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- Eight.
- Eight? My gosh!
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How many of each? How many
girls? How many boys?
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- Two boys and six girls.
418
01:20:50,612 --> 01:20:59,518
I also have two other children from a previous
marriage, previous life I guess, you could
419
01:20:59,518 --> 01:21:13,061
say. Ryan, and then I have another daughter
Gina. Sadly, we just became very far apart
420
01:21:13,061 --> 01:21:20,456
from each other in very recent years and right
now we don't have any contact between us,
421
01:21:20,515 --> 01:21:31,771
which is pretty sad. You know there is a piece
of my heart that is just missing and someday
422
01:21:32,021 --> 01:21:37,806
if we reconnect, that would be wonderful,
if some day these five children and those
423
01:21:37,806 --> 01:21:45,516
two children come back together and know
each other and have each other as family,
424
01:21:45,516 --> 01:21:49,125
that would give me
great joy and pleasure.
425
01:21:49,125 --> 01:21:54,699
- Maybe this is another chance?
- - Maybe. Maybe.
426
01:21:56,624 --> 01:22:01,220
I think about them every day
and wonder how they're doing.
427
01:22:01,261 --> 01:22:06,572
- Maybe this is another chance?
- And maybe for you?
428
01:22:06,572 --> 01:22:20,620
- Maybe. Who knows? You pilot and
I copilot. Maybe. Who know? Cheers!
429
01:22:21,244 --> 01:22:25,952
To family!
- Yes, to family and new...
430
01:22:25,952 --> 01:22:32,007
Faith and family.
- Yes, and new chance.
431
01:22:32,116 --> 01:22:34,232
- Yeah, yeah.
432
01:22:42,739 --> 01:22:44,340
Woow!
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