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We love letters.Maybe it’s because our grandmas always used to tape a
quarter toour birthday cardswhenwewere little andwenowhave this
Pavlovian thing going on. Regardless, we want to hear from you. Sing
ourpraises,bustourchops,or just telluswhat’sonyourmind.Sendyour
thoughts to
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OVERTHEMOON, PART II
Welcome, AdamPitluk, to your new job as
editor of
American Way
. What a gift you
have been given with your writing talent.
How nice to read and enjoy your personal
comments in your October 1 inaugural
editorial, “Moon Shadow,” about your and
your wife Kimberly’s moon experience. A
professoronce said, “If I canhear thewriter
talking, it waswell-written.” Andwhile I’ve
neverheard you speak, I felt the sameway.
When Iwas 19, Ihad completedadisap-
pointing first year of college and hadwan-
derlust. I shipped out of San Francisco on
the World War II freighter the
American
Bear
,whichwasheaded for theOrient. The
initial segment fromSanFrancisco toJapan
was fraught with hurricane-like weather.
Instead of having the normal 13-day trip,
we limped intoYokohamaon the 18thday.
Because of the ongoing severe weather,
we seldom s w themoon.Worried that this
old ship might not weather the storms, I
was fearful and very melancholy. The few
times themoonwas visible, Iwould look at
it andwonder ifmy parentsmight be look-
ing at it at the samemoment and thinking
the same of me. Your moon story brought
back thesememories. Thank you.
NORMANs.MANzER, sT. HELENA, CALIfORNIA
ADAM PITLUK REsPONDs:
Thank you, Nor-
man. I always love hearing travel stories
from yesteryear. I’ll be looking for you on
mynextflight toyourarea.
llll
At a timewhen Ineeded it themost, I came
across new editorAdamPitluk’s first edito-
rial, “MoonShadow,” in theOctober 1 issue
of
AmericanWay
.Mywife and Iwelcomed
our first child on August 28, 2008, and
since then, I’ve been on the road every sin-
gleweek.Withmy schedule, it’s been tough
to juggle work, family, and friends, and I
caughtmyselfnotremembering toenjoy the
simple things in life. Adam’s simple mes-
sageof “Enjoy themoon” reallyhithome for
