This Memorial Day weekend was my most special one to date. While I didn’t celebrate it the way it was intended – in remembrance of the members of our Armed Forces who gave their lives to protect our freedom – I had a chance to visit the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
A couple of my dear aviation friends – Teresa Vinson and Kirby Ortega – had selected the site for their wedding ceremony. Nobody could have dreamed up a better location for a wedding between two passionate pilots. The ceremony was held on the beach, no more than a mile from the site where the Wright brothers developed the Wright Flyer and successfully completed the first sustained powered flight. Instead of rice being thrown at the couple for good luck, miniature airplanes graced the blue skies at the completion of the ceremony.
