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Bell Textron Just Opened a Plant in Ukraine. The Viper Is Coming

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J. Steven York Jun 24, 2023

My dad died last week after a long battle with dementia. It's a slow and horrible disease. Dad and I didn't always see eye to eye. In fact, we were at loggerheads over a lot of important stuff. But I loved him, and he lived an amazing life that frankly, sometimes defied belief. He was in the Korean conflict (where he was flight engineer on Psiops missions and dropping spies behind North Korean lines), and later on dangerous test flights in a B-29 testing self-sealing fuel tanks over a bomb range. As a civilian he was a aircraft mechanic for military contractors, and for the rest of his working career a Field Service Rep for Bell Helicopter, traveling the world advising Bell customers in peace and war. He was imbedded with combat pilots in Vietnam, barely escaped the fall of Tehran, visited off-short oil rigs, shot at and forced down by drug lords in Columbia, rode out hurricanes in the bahamas, flew with Air America in Cambodia, shot at by troops off the coast of South America. He was immune to wealth or celebrity, but his eternal and genuine farm-boy charm allowed him to hob-nob with the rich, movie stars, captains of industry, high-ranking military, and high ranking politicians. He didn't care about any of it, and his favorite place was working in his shop fixing old vehicles or tools, and building amazing machines from scratch.
It was hard seeing this amazing guy slipping away year by year, day by day. Even as his memory faded, he retaining his humor and charm until near the end, when the disease (as if often does) strips away even that. It was sad to see him go, but the dad I knew left a long time ago. I wish we'd had more time together, but we lived far apart, and sometimes worlds apart, and the covid shutdown hit at a very bad time for both of us.

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