We follow a boy's passion for flying to become one of the unsung heroes of WWII. Extensive flight training, earning his navy gold wings—to being an aviator aboard the USS Franklin in the Pacific Theater.

Deaths of friends, destructionof his ship, the July 4 mission—a toll he keeps to himself.

The book reveals the battle between the time we get in life and the earned wisdom we take from it in the hunt we all seek—what it should mean. A courageous act of self-reflection.