I view my life in chapters. I think of their beginnings and how they progress through the many journeys it takes to reach the next. Some of these chapters I wonder if they are ever going to end. Then there are those which I would like to have continued into many more pages than they are. Each chapter is new experiences to learn and hopefully grow to become a better, wiser human being. I have found I learn more from those chapters I think will never end.
While stationed at Maxwell AFB Montgomery, Alabama I became a member of the Women’s (WAF) softball team. We either took a bus or if the trip proved to be time consuming we would board a gutted out Goony Bird (C-47) to play softball against other military personnel. (Just to set the record straight I do not remember how I became a member of the team. I do not have athletic tendencies except for running relays when I was younger.
Three other gals and myself decided to take a road trip one week-end to an Army base and meet up with some gals that we played against during softball season. The night before we were to take this trip I had told them I wasn’t comfortable in taking this trip. But I was convinced that nothing would happen and we would have a good time.
All I remember of that trip is on the way back to our base we all fell asleep in the car and we hit a bridge embankment and only two inches more we would have been in the river. The car (’56 Chevy Impala convertible-mint condition) was bent into an L-shape with the right rear tire wedged between the steering wheel and front seat. The girl who had been driving was thrown into the back seat. We all had injuries. I remember being in the ambulance on my stomach because the glass from the rear window had slashed my back through a medium weight jacket.
To this day I am a believer of my inner being helping to keep me safe.
