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i wouldn't be here if it wasn't for

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amelia earhart no i'm not in her direct

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lineage turns out my grandfather was her

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photographer for five years before her

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world record attempt in 1937.

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and he was supposed to accompany her on

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the flight but uh at the end she ended

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up taking extra fuel instead of him and

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his equipment so that simple decision in

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1937 because my father was born in 1938

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meant that had he got on that flight

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that i wouldn't be here today my wife

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rebecca and i had two children

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within 11 months but you don't notice

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that they're actually four years

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difference in age

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my my wife likes to say one was a

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hand-picked and one was homegrown you

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got to experience the wonderful miracle

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of adoption of our son wyatt from

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ukraine

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and then the miracle of pregnancy and

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the birth of our daughter abigail 11

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months later

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and we're a very very blessed family

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i love to fly

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and that's that's not a secret i'm kind

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of like the kid who went to the air show

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and says daddy daddy when i grow up i

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want to be a pilot his dad looks at son

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says

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i'm sorry son you can't do both grow up

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and be a pilot so that that's kind of me

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i've been very fortunate over my uh

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fighter pilot test pilot and uh

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astronaut career to have had the

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opportunity to be able to fly 82 types

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of flying machines so far everything

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from jets to props to helos to gliders

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the tail draggers to float planes

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yes and spaceships but what you didn't

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know is that i've even had the rare

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opportunity to fly the goodyear blimp

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i still have my first car

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after my freshman year at the citadel in

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charleston south carolina i came back to

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southern california and purchased a 1966

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ford mustang which i've restored over

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the years it's been a labor of love and

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i would drive that cross country with my

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grandfather back to college for the

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remaining years of school

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she's got a quarter million miles on her

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now and still runs like a top and just

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last month in june we celebrated

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our 31st anniversary

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beneath the crusty exterior of this old

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marine colonel lies the heart of a

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hopeless romantic when it comes to my

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wife

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she's the most uh amazing woman on or

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off the planet

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and to show my love for her i suggested

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that we have a our wedding in a scottish

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castle and so we did

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and in good marine corps fashion we

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decided to have a piper at the wedding

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ceremonies and then we wisely decided

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that