If you’ve seen one in flight, you know it is a beautiful aircraft. We expected them to kill lots of Russian tanks in Northern Germany. Didn’t happen, but it tackled other missions around the globe. Farewell.
Funny. They are inanimate objects, but there is something in them that makes us feel they are more than just hunks of metal.
I do feel that way about ships.
And I felt that way when they retired the Tomcats.