 I always knew that I was someday going to serve in the Navy, and when I did, I came in into the Naval Aviation Program. I was a college graduate degree in engineering, and into the Aviation Officer Candid Program at the time in 1960. It was right after I finished college, and became a Naval Aviator. And the thing unique about my career in 20 years, a veteran, was that I was shot down over North Vietnam and held as a POW for eight and a half years. So I got to wear a different kind of uniform for a good period of time. But in that eight and a half year experience, I feel privileged in a way because of the I was able to serve with some of the finest individuals that I have ever met, other aviators who also were similarly shot down and held for a long time. So in a way, I like to say that I had the privilege of serving with a lot of heroes who really made a great impression on me in the sense that we all shared a common bondage, a very strong bond, strong beliefs of basic values and principles of faith and integrity and character, and amongst us we developed a deep sense, I would say we had a deep sense of honor, which by the way was our motto, that someday we were going to come home and we were going to come back with our honor.