You need to get make an appointment to spend an hour or so with him
over the period of a couple of days. Find a nice quiet, softly lighted,
comfortable environment to sit and talk in. Prepare a list of questions
and take a video camera.
Don't let his stories be lost.

Agreed -- but Spirit Lake is a 70 minute flight or a 4-hour drive --
away. The odds of us getting back that way any time soon are somewhere
between slim and slimmer.

Jay, we missed our opportunities with our fathers because we thought we
would have the time later. It was we who were too late.
Think of it as another another aviation destiny you must fulfill. :-))