Reading is fundamental to learning and understanding most things in life. Those who read actively and consistently improve brain function, knowledge of the world, vocabulary, and are more likely to earn substantially higher incomes than those who don’t. At times marginalized people rally together to help each other in a time of need. The Dong family, who hailed from China found themselves unable to secure housing due to racially restrictive covenants in southern California many years ago until the descendants of formerly enslaved people, the Thompson family, gave them a chance. When Navy pilots talk about a shooter, it has nothing to do with guns, but everything to do with successfully launching off the boat. Take some advice from your wingmen; whenever you have a chance to fly a jet……take it! Failure to treat addiction to drugs or alcohol destroys individuals and causes long-lingering suffering to surviving family members. For some in the autumn of life, a trip down memory lane rekindles immediate recall of games played (outside) as children that kept us active, out of trouble and aware of a world bigger than ourselves. Meet a pair of college wingmen who did a good deed to lift the spirits of a beloved protector of their group who is less privileged than themselves. Their efforts helped to reunite an individual with his family thousands of miles away and brought joy into his life that would not have happened otherwise.