Dad

As dad reflects on his past, he has shared some stories of his time on navy ships and flying.  To me, it’s wild that dad used to fly planes at all, let alone land them on ships.  I would like to learn more about this part of his past or hear more stories and what he thought of it.  I guess it’s true how people sort of always think how they think because when he talks about his past and how he reflects on things it still feels like a similar vein as how he process things now.  Anyways...he was telling a story about how there was a flight that some of his pilot friends were on and somehow his name and his friend was on the manifest.  Dad and his friend were on shore that day so they were unaccounted for and believed to be on the plane also or supposed to be. Apparently there was an issue with their friends flight and either they disappeared or crashed into the water etc. and no one survived. But for a time it was thought dad was on there too.  Fortunately, the manifest turned out to be wrong, but it was a very emotional thing to process; his other pilots death, the possibility he could have been on that as well, etc.  Quite crazy to consider all the alternative scenarios possible.