Frank Pepe

Frank Pepe
Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, known locally as Pepe's, is a popular pizza restaurant in the Wooster Square neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut, at 163 Wooster Street. Opened in 1925, it is one of the oldest and best known pizzerias in the United States...
became either electrical mechanical mess pilot washed
I wanted to be a pilot but I washed out. I washed out-I wanted to be a bombardier after that, but by then they didn't need any more bombardiers. So it was either electrical or mechanical and I couldn't mess with that electrical so that's how I became a mechanic.
fixing flame island last taking third
They were still taking the island with bulldozers and flame throwersthey still had the last third of the island to takebut we were in there, fixing engines.
nights
It made for some long goddamn nights I can tell you that. They were out to kill us.