How to Preach the Miracles
Why People Don't Believe Them and What You Can Do About It, Cycle A
The last time I spoke to Ken was on the phone a few weeks before he died. He told me he was "winding down." The emphysema he had battled for years, the result of a cigarette habit augmented during his service as a fighter pilot in the South Pacific in World War II, was about to bring him down for good, something the Japanese fighters had not been able to do despite many attempts. No more near misses and buzzing the control tower in triumph on the way home to beer and bed. This was a straight-on hit from which there was no recovery.
