As the author steps off his aircraft for the last time as a professional airline pilot, he looks back to the events of his lifetime that brought him to this moment. From his birth in 1939, he weaves a unique perspective on life in America during the last sixty years of the twentieth century. He begins his story during the tumultuous days of World War II when his young life tends to change suddenly, based on the needs of the nation. In the aftermath, he grows up in a nation altered forever by new technology, leading to his family's retreat to the land and a period of primitive living. During...