@beforehewasdad: June 21, 1970. Dad has reached his new assignment at Phu Cat. The young pilot who spent years preparing for Vietnam is about to discover what being a Forward Air Controller actually means. This letter has everything I’m coming to recognize in Dad: excitement, dark humor, danger treated like another day at work, and one moment that could have changed our entire family’s future. His war has truly begun. #DadsLetters #VietnamWar #USAF #MilitaryHistory #FamilyHistory