[Cheater5]

Some things that are rad to me, are likely "uh, pass" to the majority of society.

While in the Army back in 2004 I participated in the 60th commemorative jump into Normandy. I was a Jumpmaster on a C-130, and we were jumping into St. Mere Eglise, on a DZ used during the war. It was pretty fookin' rad to be standing in the door overlooking the French countryside slipping by, then rotating back inside the aircraft and seeing 64 of my guys looking back at me, hooked up and ready to jump at my command. It was impossible not to think about hundreds of C47s dodging AA fire, paratroopers spilling out of burning aircraft, towns on fire below, and seeing tracer fire arc up toward you-- all around the very same space I was sharing only separated by a sliver of time.

I burned that memory, and that feeling, into my hard drive.