Jesse James tested out well enough to become one of our original flight leaders back when we all thought we were going to remain a ground-based reserve squadron in Texas. They actually put Drew Keawe, a true First Princess of Hawaii under his wing. He never forgave himself for letting her die. But he shouldn\u2019t blame himself. I was there. And I reviewed the footage. He did nothing wrong. She… was just surrounded by wrong places to be at the wrong time. He always says he should have done something to change that. To give her a chance. Don\u2019t believe him. I know where he was, and I know what he could have done with the perfect vision of twenty-twenty hindsight. I doubt he saw it at the time. I know I wouldn\u2019t have back then. And I know it would have killed him. I don\u2019t blame him, and neither should anyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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