COMING TOGETHER--75

Now it is Friday. We went to do Mom's hair, but then it rained hard so she didn't feel like going to a restaurant afterward. I drove us back through a hard dark rain. We went through the drive-through at Steak and Shake, then we came home to watch a WWII movie, Above and Beyond.

The movie was about the first 50 bombers flown across the Atllantic to help the British. Mom identified with it more than any other movie I have bought her because my Dad was in the first Army Air Corps graduating class to fly American bombers across the Atlantic. Her emotions got to her, so she left the room, she didn't finish the movie.

The movie was not about the AAC bombers going over the Atlantic, they did that a few months later. This movie was about the first bombers flown by civilian pilots, crew, navigators. They had minimal training, especially in navigation. The flight was scary, over bad weather, with just enough fuel to make it if the navigator didn't make a mistake at all.

So I got ice cream out for both of us.

Mom is losing the vision in one eye. She has a sad, pained look. I felt sorry for her. I hope she will let me write checks for her, starting tomorrow. I am thinking her time is shrinking.