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I'm rather new to this forum and wasn't sure of the impact, but, yes, I am the author of the pieces you're reading in the Virginian-Pilot as well as the book. I've spent 7 years of my life, the last of which has been the most intense, researching what has happened to Scott Speicher. I've stuck with his case this long, using all the skills I've learned as a researcher, investigative journalist and author of several military aviation books: Wings of Valor, Wings of Gold, , "Memories and Memorials," in U.S. Naval Aviation and others to dog his case. I had the background and personal history to do the right thing by Scott and have. It's not so much about getting it on paper as getting him back. You'll understand that as this story breaks out--and it is. It's very much the unimaginable story--true in every respect and fraught with painful twists of fate. I've been involved so heavily in how it turns out because I care very much that we do the right thing for him. I'm also anguished by the "what ifs" referred to in today's article. There are several not included in today's piece (too complex to explain in such an abbreviated forum). Also, I am not normally featured in the newspaper--I'm an author, not a newspaper columnist. I only make feature guest appearances as they would say in the newspaper world. So, I'm grateful that the Virginian-Pilot, with the nation's highest per capita military population, is reading these pieces. But they are only a bit--a small taste, really--of what's really going on with Scott's case. The rest will come soon.