A sampling of folklore definitions through the years: 2007AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY:Folklore is the traditional art, literature, knowledge, and practice that is disseminated largely through oral communication and behavioral example.
The pilots of the 1st Black Hawk shot down, Cliff Wolcott and his copilot, were wedged in the wrecked cockpit pretty tightly & the crash had kicked up a lot of dirt, partially burying both of them. The guys doing the extraction had to cut the entire front end of the chopper apart around both bodies to get them out.
Grant Eichar had also grown up in Illinois, and had been one of the legendary Eagle Squadron pilots flying from England during World War II. Eichar had been killed in action, and had left behind a young son. Jett thought for years about trying to find the son, her nephew.