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Burton Jay Smith and Willametta Turnepseed letters, January-May, 1943
1943-05-09 Page 4
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work which puts one under a severe mental strain. As such its only a job. There is no sense of flying like the birds. Afterwards I do not think I shall want to stay in flying. It has not the rewards for me, personally, that teaching has. There will be a keen competition among 4 to 5000 more or less qualified men for perhaps a thousand jobs. Alway when I left there'd be you wondering, as you would come to wonder (for they all do), "Is this his last flight?" And I'd be thinking the same thing. By the time I'm through with this I'll have had all the adventure I want (I have now to tell the truth)
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work which puts one under a severe mental strain. As such its only a job. There is no sense of flying like the birds. Afterwards I do not think I shall want to stay in flying. It has not the rewards for me, personally, that teaching has. There will be a keen competition among 4 to 5000 more or less qualified men for perhaps a thousand jobs. Alway when I left there'd be you wondering, as you would come to wonder (for they all do), "Is this his last flight?" And I'd be thinking the same thing. By the time I'm through with this I'll have had all the adventure I want (I have now to tell the truth)
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