Congratulations! You've written a really enjoyable book thanks to your gift of recounting the many funny stories, but also your ability to write about loss. . . .What a fine accomplishment.  It works as a family history but it also works as a larger history of aviation and the Viet Nam era with such precise detail and careful fact-checking that it will be a resource for future history scholars.  Bravo!  I believe history should be written by those wholived it, not by "professionals" who trail after the fact. ~ Leslie Marmon Silko