I feel my old impatience rising.
Then I touch those wings.
And I remember.
Nearly fifty years earlier, a young pilot carried a frightened boy out of a smoking airplane.
He helped a pregnant woman in a blue coat reach safety.
He brought dozens of strangers home through a terrible winter storm.
Yet half a century later, that same man was simply an elderly passenger struggling with his passport.
Nobody standing behind him knew what he’d done.
And that was the lesson Dad had been teaching me all along.
You
