"Gordon" wrote in message
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My last post made it sound like he is an ass or that I hold some
resentment
against him. I most certainly don't - I've looked up to him all of my
life,
right up there with John, Gordo, Scott, Buzz and Neil.

Yeager is way cool and I was proud to have him come see me.

I don't blame him for
getting short with his fans, now that he has spent the last several
decades
shaking hands, signing items, smiling for a ba-zillion flashes and never
having
a single private moment in public.

Yeager was better in the days when you could catch him at "a wing and a
prayer" and buy him a beer.