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"I pine for one to whom I can speak my first thoughts which represent me truly, which are no better and no worse than I."

"If a man does not keep with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away."

"When going to the mountain top, 'did you take a glass?'"
It was not to see a few particular objects as if they were near at hand as I was accustomed to see them that I ascended the mountain, but to see an infinite variety far and near in relation to each other reduced to a single picture." Henry David Thoreau.

And so we built WACO Aircraft(Weaver Aircraft Co.) and from the Air an infinite variety.. in relation to each other reduced to a single picture. And when my WACO (Wa.a.ko) husbands, Geo. E. "Buck" Waeaver and "Sam Elwood J. JUNKINbecome my two Advocates in Heaven, with our small Weaver son, and new baby daughter to raise, I needed to get to the mountain top, in the air on wings. A former WACO employee Bud Schulenberger who used his skills welding(not soldering) the metal fuselages of our big production, THREE WACO EIGHTS, joined R.E. Franklin, Michigan College professor in a building glider, aviations new FRONTIER. "Mrs. WACO" was a natural. 1929 came to Wash. D.C. bringing the glider built for 6 footers. I was five ft., 107 lbs. By auto tow passed my 180 and 360 degree tests, then 1930, N.Y. South mt to Soar. Scanty meteorology training at G.W.U. Wash. D.C. I was shock cord launched into the thermals up with flat turn paralleling the ridge. Wolff Hirth German Soaring Ace had coached me.

I Soared over beautiful Chemnug Valley for one hour, 1930. "I found my Infinite Variety reduced to a single picture..and my Advocates in Heaven always sure of the WHO I was...so the WHO I must be until my deadstick landing..and join them...Amen!  
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Hattie Meyers Junkin
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Hattie Meyers Weaver Junkin

FAI #37, Aug. 12, 1931 10:15am First for Women USA. 3 Gull blu/whte pin.