and WAVES. There were a lot of Navy fighter planes flying low all around too. The Sisters took us to the photography studio across from the fort and all of a sudden right over the green, two planes who were stunting bumped into each other tearing the tail off of one and I don’t know what off the other. The one minus a tail crashed in the marsh on the other side of the far bridge and killed the pilot instantly. It was really horrible. Of course, everyone ran down there but we didn’t. Afterwards it was rumored that the pilot was from Green Cove Springs. Also a lot of other ugly things were going. I didn’t see the crash and I am glad because I think it must be horrible to see a man killed and be helpless to do anything about it. It
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