Preface
Part One: Grandpa Gordon A Force of Nature
Chapter One: How It All Began
Chapter Two: A Legend Is Born
Chapter Three: Combat In Europe
Chapter Four: The Long Voyage Home.
Chapter Five: R&R and the Future.
Chapter Six: Grandpa Gordon Re-enlists.
Chapter Seven: Aircraft Gunnery School
Chapter Eight: The Korean War
Chapter Nine: Grandpa Gordon Meets the Love of His Life
Chapter Ten: Grandpa Gordon Gets Better, Buys A Car, Learns to Drive and Much More
Chapter Eleven: The Best Laid Plans
Chapter Twelve: The Thunderbirds
Chapter Thirteen: Grandpa Gordon and his New Wife
Chapter Fourteen: Papa Thomas visits the Hospital
Chapter Fifteen: There and Back Again–A New Life
Chapter Sixteen: Clara Gets a Job
Chapter Seventeen: The Good and the Bad
Chapter Eighteen: The Vietnam War
Chapter Nineteen: Grandpa Gordon is in Charge
Chapter Twenty: What Now?
Part Two: Papa Sam The Next Generation
Chapter Twenty-one: Sam Realizes that He Is Different
Chapter Twenty-two: Sam Discovers the Reason for this Difference and Blames Himself
Chapter Twenty-three: Sam’s Struggle to Earn His Father’s Love
Chapter Twenty-four: Sam Finally Realizes that he is Not to Blame
Chapter Twenty-five: Sam’s Search Ends at a Dinner Table
Chapter Twenty-six: Sam Goes to a Jr. College
Chapter Twenty-seven: Sam Joins the Air Force
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Sam Gets Married
Chapter Twenty-nine: Sam Learns to Fly
Chapter Thirty: Sam Becomes a Father
Chapter Thirty-one: Sam Goes to Iraq
Chapter Thirty-two: Sam Gets Shot Down and Rescues a Dog?
Chapter Thirty-three: Sam Gets Divorced
Chapter Thirty-four: Sam Finds Love Again
Chapter Thirty-five: Sam has a Daughter
Chapter Thirty-six: Sam Moves his Family to Washington D.C.
Chapter Thirty-seven: Sam’s Daughter Yua is Kidnapped
Chapter Thirty-eight: Sam Leaves the Marines and the Search Continues
Chapter Thirty-nine: Sam and Sakura Both Die
Chapter Forty: Tammy’s Demise
Resources
Appendices
Family Timeline
Selective Bibliography