Last Saturday was rough.
Dawn and were in Fredericksburg to attend a concert at Lukenbach. We arived before our room was ready and really didn't feel like walking the main street with the huge gaggle of tourists, been there done that. So I drove to the airport to have a look at the hangar hotel on the field.
I saw Cowden Ward's P-51, "Pecos Bill" parked on the ramp. He was there to fly a WWII vet in the mustang and fly over the Nimitz Museum's Pacific War reenactment going on in town.
I was surprised to see Cowden and he was surprised to see us. We talked for a bit and he introduced me to his passenger, Vincent Lasoda. Mr Lasoda was a B-17 bombardier in WWII, he lost an arm on his 25th mission. Cowden said "I'm glad you're here, I'm going to need help getting Mr Lasoda in the airplane"
I helped to put them in the airplane and sent them on their way.
About half an hour later the guy from the FBO came out and said they got a report that the aiprlane went down over town.
We now know that neither of them survived.
It's hard to wrap my head around that I was the last one to talk with them. We watched them depart, never to return.....may God bless them.
It was a Bad day.
I wanted to share some photos from Saturday....it hurts my heart to think about, but I feel like I need to share it.
Praying for these men, their families and friends and the warbird community as a whole.
Nov 20, 2018 at 10:10 AM
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