The Flag in Shreds
Heroes Remember
The Flag in Shreds
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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