| | Back to Savannah for one last time before me and 313 other fellow pilots lose our jobs on Sept 30. This place has quickly escalated itself into one of my favorite overnights in all of the XJT system. I'm going to miss finding random tidbits of cultural enrichment the world over from having this job.
Here are some of the enlightening sights from the slave trade era of the antebellum south. One of the many things the U.S. has done that it's not proud of, but I think it's analogous to visiting a concentration camp museum in Germany or Austria. One must understand what was bad to see what is good.
A tribute statue to the victims of the slave trade, adorned with a quote from Maya Angelou on the bottom:
 
Above to the right is the Old Savannah Cotton Exchange building. While completed in 1887, post-slavery, it is an icon of SAV's cotton trade.
In a very abstract way, it is quite fitting for this to be one of my last lay-overs. While today's aviation industry is far from plantation slavery, it often times feels like an occupational trap. Airlines prey on a pilot's passion for flight to pay them virtually nothing to perform a highly technical task and assume massive financial and human responsibility. Then the airline discards them without any regard to helping the individual secure his future livelihood. I'm not going to hold my breath for my mule and 40 acres.
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