That summer, Arnold’s stoic approac

That summer, Arnold’s stoic approach to work-related incidents was brutally tested. On 8 July he received word from Texas City that an old friend had crashed while riding a motorcycle, and that he lay near death (Lt. Harry Graham later recovered and served in the Air Service until his retirement in 1929). Later that same day, Arnold was presented with an accident report describing the death of another close friend, 1st Lt. Loren H. Call, in a Wright Model B plane. He served as a pallbearer at Call’s funeral the following week, and later he described the rainy event that soaked everyone in attendance: “I hope that I do not have to go on any more such missions. Call is buried right along side of Rockwell.”52