Sleipnir

Sleipnir is for

My family, because Lois, Don, and Michael Evans, Darrell Walton, Ron Walton, Frances Walton, and Zella Evans all believed in a skinny, awkward kid...

Susan Collingwood, because she always tells me when I'm wrong, and believes in me when I despair...

David R. Palmer, because he taught me craft and went above and beyond the call of friendship doing it...

Marj Schott, because she gives of her soul...

Ms. "Mom" Wiley, Dr. Constantine Santas, Dr. Andrew Dillon, Dr. Gail Compton, Mrs. Bushong, Mrs. Hill,

and all teachers everywhere, because

they create our future...

Doyle Pope, because so long as we remember, his Manta Ship will fly the stars...

Dr. John Boyle, because good doctors are worth

their weight in diamonds...

Toni Weisskopf and Jim Baen, because they

made my dream come true...

Debbie Anderson, Mary Ann Emerson, Bill Brand, Brenda Long, Kathy Lyons, Amy Repasky, Daryl Finnegan, Jenny Bruno, Sandra Kay Haile, Robert Berger, Kathy Rath, and all my many, dear friends in the North-Central Florida Sportsmen's Association and the NRA, because without good friends, we can accomplish nothing, but with their help, we can work miracles...

but mostly, Sleipnir is for Bob Hollingsworth,

and all the heroes who fought the Cold War, because some of them never returned to tell the tale.