Jack Wittman (second from the left) was in the U.S. Navy in the late 1950s. During this time, he served on an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean and was burned by the exhaust of a jet plane as it took off from the deck..

I was about 10 years old when Jack was injured. While I was playing in a little league baseball game in Dundee, a county sheriff car drove into the parking lot. The officers came to tell my sister, Joyce, who was a spectator at the game about the accident. Later after Jack was transported back to a hospital in Virginia Beach, I went along with my mother as she drove Joyce to the Willow Run Airport so she could get a flight to go be with him. Fortunately, Jack made a full recovery except for some scars.