From the West...Gail Rogers Moore, Mom & pilot.
FAMILY CENTENNIAL - page 1 West and East: characters in the book. |
From the West...Gail Rogers Moore, Mom & pilot.
| Family Centennial is the first in the moving series of true adventures. Novel-like, you are plunged into a past that could only be described by those who lived it. Brilliant accomplishments, war and sudden death send future events spinning off in different directions. Out of the ashes is hope for the future. A little boy who insists that "I Must Fly!" |
Uncle Dinty (Byron Carr Moore) American Airlines Senior Captain
Douglas DC-7
Uncle David (David Harold Rogers), military instructor pilot
Unbelievable family tragedy! Quincy, California--Gail Rogers Moore
FAMILY CENTENNIAL Prequel to "I Must Fly!" By Johnny Moore
"Down East" Maine-Kansas-Washington-California. Pioneers-Civil War-Indians-Calvary-Doctors-Foresters-Composers-Intercontinental Railroad-Aviators-World War II.
INTRODUCTION
In Part I, the family writers appearing here are on the leading edge of their time: doctors, scientists, musicians, and soldiers. Their adventures are dramatic and history making, but they were writing strictly for their family records. Even so, the results seem more like silver screen epic adventures. In the east the families endured deep hardships to conquer an icy land. The Civil War was fought. Determination and brains defeated despair and death. In the west, the Trans-continental Railroad was built, gold was mined and operas were composed.
Part II depicts unedited war and love. The setting is the Plumas National Forest run by Supervisor David N. Rogers. Its pristine alpine lakes, granite peaks and deep canyons were playgrounds for rugged mountain people. A young doctor, "Wes" Moore, patriotically joined the war effort as a Flight Surgeon. Love and flying dominated the lively correspondence topics in a "soap opera-like" script. Wes and Gail constantly attempted to communicate "between the lines" via the censored V-Mail to describe locations and circumstances so as to ease each other’s minds without tipping off the enemy. Double sudden deaths rips apart lives and send the future reeling off in a different direction.
