Hi everyone

I’d like to thank everyone again for your kind emails and cards.  It’s hard to believe my father passed away over a month ago.  Next week we all travel to Arlington National Cemetery for his funeral on 20 Feb.  We are really looking forward to the ceremony. 

On 2 Feb I ran the Tybee (Savannah Beach) 1/2 marathon.  I met my goal of finishing under 2 hours and even my secondary goal of running faster than a 9:00 pace (1:55:59).  I’m sure John ran the Myrtle Beach Marathon at a faster pace though! 

I received a call from a guy in Seattle last week who is writing a book on the 103 AS (Lafayette Escadrille) and got my name from an author of another WWI aviation book who I had written to months ago.  He wanted to know about my research on MG Frank O’D. Hunter, WWI ace from Savannah.  We had a great conversation and turns out he had an uncle in my father’s WWII division.  He had even visited Colmar, France which is a place I’d like to get to someday (of Colmar Pocket fame, Jan - Feb 45).  Anyway, it got me interested in finishing my research, though  I’ve been spending a lot of time researching the 3d ID WWII exploits from Aug 44 to the end of the war.  Retirement is great, but there isn’t enough time for everything I want to do!

 That’s it for now.  Jim, I hope you’re healing quickly!  Chuck, thanks for all the work you’ve put into this blog!

 James