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WACO          20
    I had started from N.J. thinking I was going to "Wack-o(nasal "a". In Chicago, it was WACO, long "A". However, the old Indian name was HUACOO.. pronounced Waako, soft "a".
    The pilots in the Signal Corps and oversees and into post war aviation developed a yell. When Buck soloed a cadet on his special field he relieved his tension by yelling "W.A.A.Ko! This was the yell for a "crisis" landing the pilot could walk away from.
    One day the O.T.C's (Officer's Training Camp)marched by the special fields with one C.F.I. putting the cadets thru their stunt manoevers. Naturally some Instructor would dive down close enough to scatter the O.T.C's doing their best drills. Once I though I recognized a voice at one of these wife watched games.
    Soon we wives were confined to limited activities with morning nauses. George brought home a sign. "Food will win the War. Save it." and placed it on the toilet tank top. All four bathrooms wall to wall. We would hear in the midst of our "misery" "Hold 'er Newt, she's headin' fer a silo" which Air Force warning to a cadet meant, "Give 'e go around again, come into the field instead of overshooting. In true fashion we streamlined all furniture for a quick sans obstacles course to the kept up 2 lids for our naseau. Unable to stand cooking smells we went out for our meals, with more than one "cadet landing" despite our own no furniture in the way training field, plu the Hoover sign.
    The intricacies of baby patterns caught us with the tucked yoke style early 1920's. Took our husbands to find the newer three piece sans yoke grown style. Like building aeroplanes, no clutter streamlined performance.