Oh yeah,
when I put it up on Lulu, I will make no personal added descriptions. I won't make any reference to DB Cooper or anything.
It will be the simple Vietnam documentary Sheridan wanted.

One thing I do want to put in. On the dedication page, I was going to put "To .." and the first names of his 5 kids. I'm kind of sentimental.
Now maybe I shouldn't do that.

That's a very good idea 377. (include the original pdf)
The original pdf had all the text pages duplicated. So I would just remove the duplicated text pages.

Having the original pdf, means people can compare if they are suspicious I modified anything important.
I can call the original pdf the 1st edition
and the new one (available in print/pdf/kindle or whatever) the 2nd edition. I need to do the editing to maximize the ways it can be distributed.

I really want to print Sheridan a hard copy, nicely bound and send it to him for free. And maybe send him some paperbacks he can hand out to friends/strangers/family.

Sheridan will be dead soon, humans have a short shelf life.  It would be a shame talking about Sheridan when he's dead, saying "You know, maybe I should have done this".  Better to go ahead and do what one thinks is best, now.

One thing I think about:

Reading all his comments about sex and stuff, is a little offputting.
He didn't seem to have any problem making those sexual passages public in 2007, so I'm assuming he's still all cool with it.
If not, it might be reason to remove his name as author.

But, it does seem to reflect the way men thought in Vietnam back then. So it's kind of a historical record and doesn't necessarily reflect Sheridan's current thinking about male/female relationships. That's my assumption.

For what it's worth, Sheridan expressed to me that when he passes his intention is to leave 377 all of his papers, this obviously includes the book.

I would show at his funeral.
At one time, I thought he was mulling over sending me his laptop to help in virus removal.
I demurred, not wanting to be suspected of being intrusive.

heh, Yeah in his book Sheridan talks about his days boxing as a youth, and how he used to visualize his father's face and get into quite a rage.

I was visualizing, that if the situation ever arose, where Sheridan wanted to give me a physical beatdown, I'd have to just suck it up and take it.
I mean, there's no way one could come out on the right side of things, if involved in a physical altercation with a 92 year old.

Oh well, life is full of risks. There's another I'll have to bear.

I do not know what he does in his web surfing but he ends up with viruses and malware all the time.

I am hoping we will have a few more years of pleasant meetings before his funeral needs to be considered.

Wonder how he ended up so left wing? It certainly did not  come from his family Or the United States Marine Corps.

He is actually a very pleasant lunch companion. He does not hog the conversation, he listens, and when he speaks it is with some knowledge authority and logic. He knew a lot more than I did about things that I considered myself well informed about. Voracious and careful reader.  He is a student of the rise of fascism. He does not invoke the knee jerk references to Hitler.  When he mentions Hitler he has a lot of interesting facts and observations about how Hitler came to power and how seemingly good people would tolerate the mass execution of Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals

He also has some great skydiving and smoke jumping stories that I find absolutely fascinating. He was such an OG in our sport yet few outside of the Vortex know anything about him. Just a couple of years ago he got a ride in a jump ship at Cloverdale California wearing a bailout rig. They would not let him make a solo skydive. I really expected him to just jump anyway but I think he knew how much trouble the nice people who took him for a ride could get into and refrained. I asked at the local DZs where I jump. All of them said they would only let him do a tandem not a solo. They viewed him as too much of a risk regardless of his prior experience. I am positive he could still make a successful solo jump.  What the DZ safety officers told me is it with really old people, osteoporosis can result in a horrible bone fractures from only slightly rough landings.

I have said this before but he is truly fearless. He just does not seem to get scared the way most jumpers do. The fright is part of the thrill, so maybe he found skydiving less thrilling than I do. I have fifty years in the sport and it is still scary. I have the telemetry data to prove it. 173 HR BPM waiting for canopy deployment.

If I owned a suitable plane I would take him up and let him jump. I know he could do it. I would pick a day with a 10 knot wind so he could do a slow up wind landing. He would know what to do.

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Be nice Snow. Even if you have criticism about the analytics and reported results, Tom and Al moved things forward big time by finding stuff on the tie that the FBI totally missed. If you have a beef with the way the work was done help him to do it better. This is not science combat. He is not your enemy. We have enough rancor here. No need to add more.

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