[Lonesome in Massachussets]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Van_Dyke#Military_service

In 1944, Van Dyke left high school in his senior year to join the United States Army Air Forces for pilot training during World War II.

[Codeflier]

You said he was 68 in 2004. Yet he was born in 1925. That doesn’t add up.