magazine, steven rodrick, author of the majle stranger a son s journey into his father s life which looks amazing. i grew up in pensacola, florida, big navy town and i had friends i went to school with whose fathers died in vietnam when they were 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. sure. and they just seemed in a way to take their father with them and many decided to become navy pilots themselves. sure. but you have a similar story about your dad. i do. my father was had just become commanding officer of his squadron and was killed in a plane crash off the kitty hawk when i was 13. the sort of extra tragedy i was supposed to they have these tiger cruises where you can meet your family in hawaii and come back on the boat with him. i was about to meet him and have that experience of seeing what he did. i knew he flew jet office a carrier and stuff like that but i didn t get to havehave that