March 21, 2010
Back to Philippines

Silver wing on high tomorrow - bound for Southeast Asia; Nashville, Detroit, Japan, Manila. Some mixed memories from 38 years ago: fast low flight over a lake in a volcano in a lake in an island in an ocean; tiny jungle people who gave life skills; liberty in ’Po City; a last beer with friends who died soon after; watching two friends die on take off; Officer-in-charge of a band of misfits being discharged from the Navy; getting a telegram that I was father of a boy named Dan who I would meet many months later.

Pygmies know the jungle
Fast low flight over dense hot green
Smell life and taste death