Probably not; but that’s kind of how this reads. Dude’s 94, by the way, and he still ‘sounds’ pretty damned spry. I don’t expect to be this spry at 94.
By age 24, @taylorswift13 had 2 albums sell 1 mill copies in 1 wk. By 24, I was a fighter ace, rec'd Bronze Star w/ V & broken sound barrier
— Chuck Yeager (@GenChuckYeager) February 12, 2017
Heh, luck to him if he is!
I don’t think his wife’s going to like that.
I was there when BGEN Yeager broke the sound barrier for us on the 40th anniversary of his first doing so…he can do whatever he bloody well wants, AFAIC.
“It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.” — Tom Lehrer, 1965
This reminds me of a TV program I saw a number of years ago where Katie Couric was interviewing the CEO of a Fortune 100 company.
(From memory and highly paraphrased)
Katie: “How do you justify getting paid $11 million a year when your workers get paid so much less”
He: “Katie, I am responsible for a multi-billion dollar company with 13 separate division, more than 70,000 employees and operating in 47 countries arond the world. You, on the other hand, get $11 million a year for being cute.”
That was in the days before mic drop.