the intersections of family stories and history on Memorial Day

Remembering my maternal grandfather this Memorial Day, who was a fighter pilot with Chennault’s Flying Tigers during WW2, who took a train across the American South in 1945 to train in Texas for a year (with Connie Chung's dad!), who flew the last plane out of China in 1949... Thanks to all our vets as we think about the intersections of family stories and history in "Grandfather Walking" on page 109 of Kartika Review http://issuu.com/kartikareview/docs/kartika_issue16