These above are some shots of my children with me. I often think how grateful I am to have shared the lives of these young people. Not only am I grateful, I am very fortunate because things might have turned out quite differently for me. Directly above is a picture of me in my US Navy days in about 1969. One day, when young Allen was a year old, an incident occurred while aboard the USS Forrestal about which I wrote the following piece. We had returned from an 11 month cruise in May 1969 and were about to return to the Mediterranean Sea for another tour: Allen's Flight.