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My well-worn copy of Jerry Boyle’s 1994 book, APACHE SUNRISE (Ballantine Books). Jerry had planned to follow this with two sequels, “Apache Noon” and “Apache Sunset”. This 259-page book is no longer in print, but Amazon.com, this morning, lists “1 New” for $131.02. “Apache” refers to Troop A, 1/9 Air Cav, a unit in which Jerry served. Later, as a civilian pilot, Jerry flew helitack missions with a “hot shot” crew of Apache firefighters from the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona. Jerry wrote that they “taught me the true meaning of ‘Apache’.”

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