Been There, Done That

One evening while sitting around a cocktail table with other Transport pilots at the Khartoum Airbase Officers Lounge, instead of the usual topics of discussion about women and airplanes, the subject of what we wanted to do after the war came up. One of the pilots, a little drunk and homesick, said, “When I get home, I’m going to buy a rocking chair, put it on the front porch and rock.... And when someone comes along and asks me to go somewhere, I’m going to tell him, ‘No thanks’, I’ve already been there!” End of discussions... but not the drinking.... We all suddenly felt the same way.