My super-dear cousin Tom Brielmann, a captain for Delta Airlines, took this photo of LITTLE NIGHT and emailed me with the heading "Front of the Store at Logan Airport." He then followed a tradition--he always buys my book in the Delta terminal first day of sale, and gives it to a random passenger. Today it was a woman from NYC. I hope she enjoys it! (and thank you, Tom xxoo) (We're close, and he's always been generous, original, idiosyncratic, creative, a wonderful cousin, and a great pilot. I took my first flight with him when we were both 16.)
Veterans Day
My father joined the Army Air Corps during World War II. He was twenty-one, from a close family in Hartford, Connecticut. When the time came for him to report for training, Thomas F. Rice, Jr. went to the Hartford train station and joined a long line of other young men, ready to board. The line was single-file, until it got to my father.
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