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Wednesday, May 3, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
BUNKHOUSE: Flight
gives glimpse of
World War II
Continued from page 16
PHOTO BY SUE STAFFORD
Mayor Chuck Ryan accepds a Tree Cidy USA award from foresder Kadie
Lompa.
ARBOR DAY: Students
have been planting in
Sisters for 10 years
Continued from page 3
our active management of
them will become even more
critical to ensure healthy and
livable communities.”
The students, with the
help of the adults, placed
maple and chokecherry trees
into pre-dug holes, which
they filled with healthy soil
and then watered. Four trees
are located along the north
side of the park on East
Washington Avenue and one
on the south side along East
Jefferson Avenue.
Elementary students
have been taking part in the
Arbor Day tree planting
for 10 years, according to
Public Works Director Paul
Bertagna, who urged all the
children to hold up their
muddy hands as they were
being photographed.
The
Arbor
Day
Foundation is a million-
member nonprofit conser-
vation and education orga-
nization with the mission
to inspire people to plant,
nurture, and celebrate trees.
More information can be
found at www.arborday.org.
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Sitting there, taking it
all in as fast it came, I was
rewarded with just the slight-
est notion of what it might
have been like to come in off
the Channel over Belgium or
France, bound for the dark
bowels of the Third Reich.
Like most good things it
was over all too soon, and I
could not, as I wandered back
to my seat beside the .50s in
the waist, avoid thinking long
and hard about the silver ball
embedded in the floor beside
me, an enclosed orb sitting
motionless and quiet, perhaps
the loneliest of all worlds.
As we came in over Bend,
winging past the river and the
Old Mill, and lined up our
approach, I began to think
about Randall Jarrell’s poem,
“The Death of the Ball Turret
Gunner.” Jarrell served in
the Army Air Corps, during
the war. He tells us some-
thing about youth, and fear,
and the blind commitment it
must have taken for a man to
seal himself into the ball tur-
ret alone, fully aware of the
odds, and to stare suddenly
into the frenzied Nazi maw.
He wrote:
From my mother’s sleep I
PHOTO BY CRAIG RULLMAN
Thousands of airmen ran harrowing bombing missions inside a cold, noisy
B-17 Flying Fordress.
fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly
till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth,
loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and
the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed
me out of the turret with a
hose.
But it would be wrong
to leave this column there,
because that is not the whole
story. The whole story, I
think, says something more
about who it is we think we
are, collectively, and the
lengths to which we will go
in order to preserve the good
in all of us, and bear that
forward.
There are still men among
us who did, once, in B-17s
over a darkened Europe, in
the most destructive con-
flict the world has ever seen.
Russell Williams for instance,
now 94. He’s your neigh-
bor. To many, he’s a friend.
And on Saturday mornings
you can find him still quietly
and humbly serving, down
at the Habitat for Humanity
ReStore.
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