The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.

There are long faces here in the control center and around the site. Everybody was so looking forward to flying today.

When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.

Don't attach to expectation. Sure, keep faith and hope with you at all times. Have the best intentions, give your best effort, act with kindness and love. Just remember, no one has or can control the outcome. Even you may change your mind halfway down a path, and that's OK. It's the journey, not the destination.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

The house has been used as a command-and-control facility,
and therefore it became a part of the military machine,