Casey and Me

Roger Awsumb as Casey Jones WTCN poster.

"Casey and Me" is a short autobiographical essay by Karl Jones.

Casey and Me

I co-starred with Casey — Casey of "Lunch with Casey" fame, my childhood hero — in a musical benefit for a children's Sunday school.

Nobody was paying attention — church basement, kids and parents milling everywhere, cake and lemonade, happy chatter of children playing and grown ups talking —

But when Casey called out —

"Hey everyone! Karl is going to sing a song!"

—everyone turned and listened and sang along as Casey and me sang "On Top of Old Smokie" and other childhood favorites.

Adult childhood favorites, of course. Only the parents and I had any idea who Casey was.

Helicopter crash survival

It’s completely possible to survive a helo crash. My pops - a 20-year Marine Corps pilot - survived two with only a couple of scrapes.

Helo crashes look really violent, and they’re definitely no carnival ride, but if the crew is properly strapped in and ready, they can certainly be survived in many, perhaps most, cases. With all of the debris flying around, they’re usually more dangerous to people outside than the crew.

—Andy Burns, Flight Officer / Aviator at United States Navy (1995-present)

• Comment @ Quora (November 22, 2019)

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
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