Harry Kirkland giving my son his first haircut. This is supposed to be a farm blog, not an obituary column, but I have to write this one....

Traditionally, when we gather to remember a fellow military aviator who has “flown West,” we throw a nickel on the grass as we leave....

On January 28th, during a training mission off the coast of Italy, Luc “Gaza” Gruenther’s F-16 fighter went down in bad weather.  His...