The main purpose of this trip was to see a grandson commissioned as an officer in the Air Force. Afterwards, we found some interesting sights on Maxwell Air Force Base.
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- F-22 Raptor, one fifth scale.
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- A Super Sabre. After the Korean War (1954) I saw a field of hundreds of the original Sabre jets. They were retired to an open field in the Arizona desert, not mothballed like so many planes in the Arizona desert, just sitting there, unfenced.
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- A replica of a Wright Brothers flyer.
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- The Wright Brothers had opened a civilian flying school on what is now Maxwell AFB.
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- “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Here am I. Send me.” (Isaiah 6:8). This statue is dedicated to Karl W, Richter who perished while flying his 198th mission over Vietnam.
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- By the riverfront train station stands this statue. The plaque says “On August 28, 1917, 3677 Alabama National Guardsmen departed from Montgomery’s Union Station for shipment to France as the 167th United States Infantry Regiment of the Rainbow Division. Having suffered 616 killed in action and more than a thousand wounded during World War I, the 167th returned to this station on May 12, 1919.”
