Three years later, in October of 1979, I had the privilege of meeting retired Navy pilot George Gay and hearing his firsthand account-in the movie, he’s the guy who watched the battle of Midway unfold from the water.īoth left indelible impressions on me. In the summer of 1976 my grandfather took me to see the movie Midway. In this case, however, the man made the uniform. She’d heard it said the uniform made the man. Like the rest, he wore a combat helmet and the uniform of a seasoned soldier. He stood just inside the open hangar bay. She ripped open the envelope on what promised to be her mother’s latest progress report. With the slightest tremble, Tam forgot all about poachers and drug runners and soldiers underfoot. So what was Tam really afraid of? That her mother would never find her father or that she would? What if he’d always had one? Only a double life made a man that hard to find. And what if Tam’s mother did manage to find him after all these years? In all likelihood he’d made a new life for himself that included a wife and kids. She didn’t know his last name, his branch of service or his serial number. Lan maintained that she’d married Skully, but couldn’t produce documentation. What did her mother really know about the man?
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