Of COURSE it made your day! A fabulous read from every aspect! My dad and his best friend Joe designed and flew model aircraft growing up… Dad was born in 1916. North American Aviation drafted him into their design department not long after he graduated from high school. He stayed with them his entire career. Joe’s sister Mariana became …
Of COURSE it made your day! A fabulous read from every aspect! My dad and his best friend Joe designed and flew model aircraft growing up… Dad was born in 1916. North American Aviation drafted him into their design department not long after he graduated from high school. He stayed with them his entire career. Joe’s sister Mariana became my mom when Dad proposed in a telegram sent 12/8/41 telling mom and her parents to get off the CA coast as nobody knew what just might happen next. Dad was in Kansas City, KA at the time, on loan to Grumman for a couple of years… Mom and Dad married in Kansas City February 7, 1942. My brother Hugh was born 13 months later and I came along in July 1944. When I was three they bought a home in El Segundo, just south of LAX, dad‘s workplace. Dad‘s model airplanes were hung in the bedrooms of the home and I grew up with a P 51 Mustang hung nose down above my head as I slept each night. I’ve always had a strong affection for that plane. Dad passed in 1995, brother Hugh in 2009… Were Hugh alive, his mind kept track of details far beyond my abilities. But the themes of your newsletters, your writing style, so many aspects described in this book review … I feel a kinship and much gratitude every time I see a new TCinLA post in my inbox. I’m certain I’ll be buying the book(s?!) and reading not just for my own education, but also honoring the family legacy and history. Congratulations. Dad‘s name was Kenneth William Hamilton and his best friend: Joe Weathers. Astrophysicist Robert Hamilton Cannon, a close friend here at Stanford, passed 8/15/17, always reminded me of Dad and his friends. I guess it all soaked into my psyche, beyond legitimate DNA. Thank you for all you know, have accomplished, all you research and all you write. Again, congratulations!
July 28! Oh my! This coincidence is very special to know! Happy imminent birthday! Mom’s 6/30 birthdate (1915) is exactly 4 weeks before mine, so always fell on the same day of the week…felt special, and fits my little 3rd grade teacher mindset (multiples of 7!).
Of COURSE it made your day! A fabulous read from every aspect! My dad and his best friend Joe designed and flew model aircraft growing up… Dad was born in 1916. North American Aviation drafted him into their design department not long after he graduated from high school. He stayed with them his entire career. Joe’s sister Mariana became my mom when Dad proposed in a telegram sent 12/8/41 telling mom and her parents to get off the CA coast as nobody knew what just might happen next. Dad was in Kansas City, KA at the time, on loan to Grumman for a couple of years… Mom and Dad married in Kansas City February 7, 1942. My brother Hugh was born 13 months later and I came along in July 1944. When I was three they bought a home in El Segundo, just south of LAX, dad‘s workplace. Dad‘s model airplanes were hung in the bedrooms of the home and I grew up with a P 51 Mustang hung nose down above my head as I slept each night. I’ve always had a strong affection for that plane. Dad passed in 1995, brother Hugh in 2009… Were Hugh alive, his mind kept track of details far beyond my abilities. But the themes of your newsletters, your writing style, so many aspects described in this book review … I feel a kinship and much gratitude every time I see a new TCinLA post in my inbox. I’m certain I’ll be buying the book(s?!) and reading not just for my own education, but also honoring the family legacy and history. Congratulations. Dad‘s name was Kenneth William Hamilton and his best friend: Joe Weathers. Astrophysicist Robert Hamilton Cannon, a close friend here at Stanford, passed 8/15/17, always reminded me of Dad and his friends. I guess it all soaked into my psyche, beyond legitimate DNA. Thank you for all you know, have accomplished, all you research and all you write. Again, congratulations!
What date in July? That's also my birth month and year.
July 28! Oh my! This coincidence is very special to know! Happy imminent birthday! Mom’s 6/30 birthdate (1915) is exactly 4 weeks before mine, so always fell on the same day of the week…felt special, and fits my little 3rd grade teacher mindset (multiples of 7!).
So, you're actually a Leo. Mine is July 13. The day of the biggest air battle over Normandy.
Phenomenal!