Wed, Nov 25 2009
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Gov. Nigh once sold parking spaces for OU football games One memory that's not humorous but was never mentioned growing up. It was included in a tattered newpaper clipping found among his papers. The newspaper in Minot, N.D., put the young lieutenant on the front page for talking the pilot of a fighter jet down after the plane lost its ability to navigate.
The pilot was off course and radioed for help into the SAC base tower where dad was an air traffic controller on duty that night. Using local landmarks, speed and distance calculations and a little bit of luck, the pilot landed safely. He may have been a father himself, now with children of my vintage, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren. It's a story that I'll share with my own children today as we celebrate and remember. Andy Rieger 366-3543 editor@normantranscript.com 
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