I grew up in Santa Fe, NM amid many famous writers and artists and I always wanted to write, but never had the time until I retired from the business world. In my youth, I was one of the very last Morse code trained Airborne Radio Operators in the USAF just before that skill passed into the realm of ancient history. I wanted to chronicle that for history so I wrote "Departure Message," a memoir about being an enlisted aircrew member when the Cold War was not so cold and airplanes could not fly without a radio operator. I put together a short story from the manuscript, more...
