He wanted to go to college, he wanted to go to Yale, and he almost certainly would have. But all talk of college ended, and it was a swerve in his life that caused him to start reading about, among other things, ornithology and aviation. While it was the most painful and demoralizing blow in his life, and the swerve was something totally unexpected, it was what set him on the path to what he did with his life. Their father raised them to have purpose in life, have a mission, a quest, to accomplish something worthy, to make the world a little better than it was before you came along. This was
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