I pray Tom is right about that.

I wanted to tell the story about air power, but I didn't want to lecture people. Let the story come out of the anecdotes. ... The other thing I wanted to do was create some romance, some passion about things that go on in the military. So it goes well beyond airplanes and bombs and strategy and national policy. It goes into things like families, into how wives kiss their husbands good-bye when they go off to war.

If you do it right, the cooling off period is measured in minutes.

I've already played on that field a few times and enjoyed it. My parents, friends and family will be right down the road and can come watch me whenever they want.

Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.

The infrastructure is there now to right the ship.