It's raining...mules?

Since it is Memorial Day, I just wanted to share again one of my favorite stories about my grandfather.  Granddaddy served in the U.S. Army's Air Force in the second World War.  During the war, he was, at one point, helping transport a load of mules to China over the Himalayas.  During the course of the flight, the plane lost one of its two engines and began to lose altitude.  The crew needed to unload their four-legged cargo to keep the plane from going down.  Crew members attempted to move the mules, but were unable to coax them off the plane.  Granddaddy, who grew up on a farm in Mississippi, saved the plane and crew because he was the only one who knew how to get the mules to unload and successfully backed them off the plane.  You have to wonder what the Tibetans thought as mules began to rain down from the sky around them.