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books are identical all the way down to a flight that we busted.” You know we
were getting close to, getting close to graduating and me and him both got an

UNSAT on a flight for the same thing. It was horse**** but it was really just
something to keep us focused so we didn't think that we were done if you will.
Does that make sense?

Ivan: Yeah. Keep you on your toes.

Pete H: There you go. Trying to keep you humble, that's all it was. And he and I had done
the exact same thing. We came off of Tinker Air Force Base going north and Vance
is up north and if we had been totally on our toes, we would have intercepted the
extended runway the straight end for Vance from the east. And both of us faded
across to the west, you know, nothing gross. Faded across from the west and then
intercepted it. It wasn't a big, big deal or whatever, but I think they all discussed
you know Pete and Chuck are on the long way home already, so we need to power
back in. And it just so happened that we did the same thing on the exact same ride
and our grade books were identical. You know when he told me that we both
looked at them and just went, “Huh.” I didn't tell him, yeah when I go into the
office they’re acting like I'm just scraping, just trying to make it. Anyway, it was

pretty interesting.

Man, what can we say.– all those things that made people decide that we were

different, that stuff stagnates through generations and it’s going to be generations
before everybody understands it.

If you strip the skin off or all of us on this Earth, we're going to look the same.

Ivan: True.

Pete H: But, right now, and you know that racist tendencies, activities, racism as a whole,
is learned and nobody can walk in and decide that somebody is messed up or let
somebody tell them that, that's no surprise to me. None whatsoever.

Ivan: So Pete, tell me the happy ending. How did you how did you end up getting a
fighter?

Pete H: Because when the dude (WG/CC) told me that, he energized me. He didn't realize
who he was dealing with. When he told me that I needed to face the fact that I