My thoughts are with you and your family. You've lost a great man there, I sympathise with you all.
It was a good thing to get away for a while - let the sorrow run its course, take comfort in each other as you probably already do.
Many warm thoughts from me to all of you.
One More Roll
We toast our hearty comrades who have fallen from the skies, and were gently caught by God's own hand to be with him on High.
To dwell among the soaring clouds they've known so well before. From victory roll to tail chase, at heaven's very door.
As we fly among them there, we're sure to head their plea. To take care my friend, watch your six, and do one more roll for me.
— Commander Jerry Coffee, Hanoi, 1968.