Loon: A Marine Story was created over the past seven years. 

Success has a thousand fathers. The seeds for this story, however, were planted by my mother.
Here is the acknowledgment page as it will appear one short week from today. 
This book emerged from more than one hundred letters home that I wrote during my two years in the United States Marine Corps from 1966 to 1968. My mother saved the letters and often encouraged me to "do something with them". Thirty-five years later, my second wife, Kare