It was weird enough to take note of, but we were just like, that’s weird, but whatever. It looked like someone had two flashlights and was moving them in circles next to each other. So, as we’re sitting there I notice that there is these lights up in the top of the evergreen trees behind the shed. This is where things start getting weird. There was a faint light from that pre dusk just before the sun sets. We didn’t have any lights on except for the light coming out from the kitchen. Kelly sat with his back to the basketball hoop, Ryan was to Kelly’s left, so his right side was to the hoop facing the shed, and I sat to Ryan’s left directly facing the basketball hoop.Īs we sat there talking, the sun was going down. On the patio was a patio table which is where we were sitting. There was a wheelbarrow lying on its side under the hoop and a shovel leaning against the house near the kitchen door.
They had been doing yard work so there were various tools around. The yard itself goes slightly up hill from the patio/basketball court with a shed in the corner of the yard. His yard is completely fenced off and the gate was closed. Extending along the back of the house from the patio is a concrete basketball court with a hoop at the far end. His back yard has a concrete patio directly out from the kitchen.
We had 1 beer and we’re smoking cigarettes). (We we’re not drunk or on any drugs during this. We told him we had been chilling having a drink. We’re sitting on his back patio just hanging out when Kelly calls to see if we were ready to head out. When we got home, Kelly went to his house, but me and Ryan went to Ryan’s house to have a beer and smoke a cigarette. Since Ryan, Kelly, and I lived in the same cul de sac we had driven together. When we had finished, we were all going to go home, clean up, and then meet back up with everyone at Applebee’s. Kelly’s girlfriend helped couch the team so she had a key to the fields.
One day, I believe it was in August, we were out playing softball with some friends at the local high school. Kelly had just finished college and me and Ryan just needed to move home for whatever reason. The 3 of us grew up in the same cul de sac with each of our houses being one house apart. In the summer of 2005, I had moved back home. Stigler escorted the B-17 and its crew to the North Sea coast, protecting it from German anti-aircraft gunners. However, Brown didn't understand, and decided to keep flying towards England. Stigler motioned to Brown to land his airplane in neutral Sweden because of the extensive damage. Upon further inspection of the airplane, he saw through large holes in the fuselage a frantic crew trying to save the lives of their fellow airmen.įranz is quoted as saying "and for me it would have been the same as shooting at a parachute", in reference to a statement by his commander and mentor Gustav Rödel "If I hear of one of you shooting a man in a parachute, I'll shoot you myself!". Lining up to finish the bomber and shoot it down, he noticed the tail gunner never moved the guns. Franz had shot down two B-17s earlier that day and he soon caught up to a wounded B-17 flown by Charles Brown. On 20 December 1943, Franz met the B-17 bomber named "Ye Olde Pub" and its pilot Charles "Charlie" Brown for the first time.