1965-6-7, OTRD to Dallas (no DFW yet), Y $96,
F$118. Food and service in Y better than F today, F really very good. No upgrades; buy and fly. Admiral's Club put nice little sticker on your ticket envelop that identified you. FA's called you by name, "Admiral So and So." Passengers all well behaved, crew extra attentive. Different time, different world. Can't change this one, glad to be here, still find folks nice, helpful, doing their best just as we are - or should be. Heck, the bar has been lowered on everything so we ought to do our best with the cards we are dealt and, for goodness sake, don't make others miserable just because our shoe pinches or we don't like the chow.
Rich: must be the time of year - or century - or millennium - or whatever! I do agree with you far more often than otherwise.
Looks like we're coming through this once in a lifetime Y2K without the problems the doomsayers promised so let's all be grateful, say grace and a prayer for this weeping world, and go forth tomorrow resolved to love and serve mankind in the new century. May the peace of God which passes all understanding be your every present companion in this day and for ever more. We really are united as the children of one God and that has nothing to do with any airline but everything to do with ourselves and our neighbors.