The funeral ceremony for George Herbert Walker Bush could not have been more dignified, respectful, reverent, uplifting and human. The compelling eulogists, especially son George, brought back much of what we have forgotten or never knew: his diplomatic strengths, an individual of unusual loyalty, sincerity, humility, humor, and most of all, love — “the best father a son or a daughter could have.”

To salute a dedicated and brave Navy aviator, there could be no greater symbol in recognition and honor of this American than the noted “Blue Angels,” with its missing-man formation, altered to acknowledge this gentleman’s lifelong mourning of his two crewmates who did not survive when the three attacked a Japanese Empire fortification. Rather than the usual solitary actor, let three of the Angels leave their positions in flight and together fly off, upward to the heavens, where a very particular pilot and his two compatriots surely are today.

Albert Edward Fyffe Jr.

Manoa

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