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The Flag in Shreds

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All you can do is remember the funny things, you know, and Roland Mitchener, I was bringing him from Red Deer to Ottawa and I had to bring him to some big parade but he'd been out there on this thing so the chap roared out and they hand you the flag, you know, so you put the standard up and it's the astro, not the astrodome but the thing goes up for taking star shots and what have you. So anyway, slap this thing up, well in the hurry, so there's nothing on the jet prop. So I took right off and after a while I hear all this, “Bang, bang, bang.” What the Dickens is that, you know? So I thought, “Oh Jesus, we've left the damn flag up.” So you can't take it down so we got to Ottawa and pull it in, stripped in threads, and of course, afterwards we go down the stairs and handed it to the driver to put on the car, hand him this handful of shreds and the look on his face. I had to keep so straight a face, it was crazy.

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