[OpeEdMunkey]

Mary Jo we hardly knew ye.

Kennedy Brother #1 heroic WWII pilot.

Kennedy Brother #2 heroic commander of WWII PT Boat

Kennedy Brother #4 failed pilot of boat-like Oldsmobile Delmont

[Richard Kimball]

Re: your mention of JFK. I always thought that JFK was one of the most compelling figures in history. If someone had written him as a fictional character, no one would have believed him.

The son of a bootlegger that rose to national prominence as an advisor to President Roosevelt, his father pulled strings to get him a PT Boat assignment when the navy had judged him medically unfit. During his first month of combat, his boat gets run over accidentally by a Japanese destroyer, and he and his crew spend a week on a desert island, getting rescued after writing notes on cocoanuts and dropping them in the water. He gets out of the Navy and writes one book, which wins a Pulitzer prize. He gets elected to the Senate, then to the White House, has an affair with Marilyn Monroe, then the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis. He's so popular the actors on the Dick Van Dyke show are cast partially because they look like him and his wife. His head blows up on television, his alleged murderer is murdered on live television and Kennedy's death becomes a billion dollar whodoneit industry, and possibly the most famous unsolved crime in history.

If I wrote that as a book, no one would believe it.