I knew Chuck's daughters from high school so I only had a chance to personally meet Chuck a handful of times, but that was enough to leave a lasting impression on me. He told me about flying jets, and once, while trying to land on an aircraft carrier, he had to ditch the plane in the ocean. He spent time in Antarctica. I just learned from his obituary that he was stationed in Iceland. To a teenager living in the farmlands of Montcalm County, Chuck was like some character in an adventure novel who just matter-of-factly stepped off the page. The few times that I visited the "Flying Z" farm, he and his wife Lyn were always kind and gracious. I seem to remember lots of book shelves; the fact that they had not one, but TWO, sets of encyclopedias impressed the heck out of me. This was obviously a family who valued knowledge and learning. It took me a couple more decades before I had 2 sets of encyclopedias under my roof (sadly, I tend to use Wikipedia a lot more nowadays, but that's how things go...). Over his 92 years on Earth, Chuck has touched the lives of many people; I am one of them. John Takao Collier