Destiny or Fate......eventually, in the end, it's all history

Growing up did you have dreams or aspirations of becoming something specific?  When you were young, did people say,  "You'll make a great leader or follower someday"?  Retrospectively, did actions or events in your former days lead to an expected or unexpected outcome in the future? Whether you believe in destiny or fate, the path in life you follow, eventually leads to your destination. 

Below are 2 pages picturing Robert A. Dempster, Jr, the eventual pilot of the Pistol Pakin Mamma, taken from the Freeportian, the Freeport high school (Freeport, Pennsylvania) yearbook.  Do these pages show a man destined to lead others?

It's sad to think that 9 of the crew went to their deaths, never knowing if their great sacrifices ever truly made a difference; they never lived to find that "we won the war".

A man said to me, at my father's funeral in 2003, "You're never forgotten until everyone who's ever known you are also gone".  I'd like to think, that by and from this blog,  we are keeping the memory of these brave men alive for future generations, that they'll never be forgotten.