The Veteran Bomber

. He had gone round about what he had been through inside out. The bomber's cockpit taught him what power is all about: Feeling like Zeus hurling down at will thunderbolts at foes as he criss-crossed skies, strafing wherever the cross-hair goes. Awesome might in his fingers, life and death on his trigger. been there, done that, no big dealfor this retiree-bomber. In his waning years, still lost as to what it was about, the ultimate end, doubting the benefit of the doubt. He recalled lines heard long ago on being brave, strong and true. Said he was, but with rockets he had to fire, bombs to strew, he must have rocked the world with blasts his whole life through, obeyed the dark side of combat command, red, white and blue. .