This Is Not a Special Effect

(Photo: US Air Force)

Not sure if I should be hearing Wagner’s The Ride of the Valkyries from Apocalypse Now, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee from Shine, or whatever music accompanied those flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz, when I see this humongous fleet of C-17 cargo planes flying over South Carolina recently

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