I Found Amelia Earhart!

I'd like to tell you that there were lots of adventures on the trip over, but there weren't - it was just god awful long 19 plus hours in the air in a 26 hour long day. Everything went as planned.

There was one interesting thing that happened during the last leg of the trip which was from Nagoya to Saipan. An older gentleman sat in the seat next to me. I asked him if he was going to Tinian, as he looked of the age that he might have served there, which was indeed the fact.

He told me that he worked loading the B29's and he worked with some of the locals who had been forced conscription by the Japanese. One of these guys told him that he had been on burial duty when they burried an woman American flyer that had been captured and executed - obviously Ameila Erhart and showed him the grave. Nobody believed the old guy until recently, and now a team had been put together to dig up the grave and try and get a genetic sample. Evidentally the Mariana Government wasn't very supportive, but members of the team got the US State Department to put pressure on the Mariana's government to let them exhume the grave.

While the guy was telling me this, another passenger up in first class was watching and not very happy with this guy talking to me, so he came down and moved the guy up to first class. Of course this was after 19 hours up and maybe I dreamed the whole thing. Maybe the guy was making it all up, I didn't believe the Hurricane either when he told me that Denzel Washington
was going to play him. So if something DOES happen, remember you got the scoop here.

Update:
I just had lunch to day, and guess what I didn't imagine it! The story made front news here in Saipan. Have you heard anything back there?

Another letter coming