Yeah, that's why that set me off.
It was so dangerous, flying into German airspace was like confronting a suicide mission every time.
Every time they went up, they had to confront death, because the attrition was so bad for bomber pilots.
And then Hanoi Dan takes a cheap shot at him, and yet all I remember is the old man.
Who couldn't even remember it at all. Couldn't even remember how to fly a plane, never mind the war.
Couldn't even remember that he had flown a plane, in the Second World War.
I mean, he was impressed, but it was like it was somebody else who had done it.
He was like me, he was impressed with this guy who had done that, but he couldn't remember that it was him.
I even showed him pictures, pictures of him in the war, he said it did look like him, but he had no memory of it.
Dementia is a helluva drug.