Happy Thanksgiving!
Dwight put this up a while back, and I decided to tuck it away to use on Thanksgiving. It’s a speech by SR-71 pilot Brian Shul about going from being severely burned in a crash in the jungle in Vietnam and days away from death wasting away in a hospital to not only return to flying, but to fly the greatest airplane in history.
I first became aware of Shul a couple of decades ago, when I came across the fact that his book Sled Driver: Flying the World’s Fastest Jet brought eye-popping sums on eBay. He talks about the book some later in the speech.
That is an insane amount of money for a book. I understand military collectables and have a few myself, but dang!
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