The Artist's Deep Feeling About This Painting Deserves Quotation: This Was The Most Important And Most Honored Thing That Ever Happened To Me. I Lived And Learned A Lifetime Flying With The Vietnamese. Major Hung, My Pilot,...Is One Of The Deepest, Sensitive And Most Intelligent Men I've Ever Met. He Holds A Very Special Place In My Heart Because He Is All Those Things, And Also Because He Was The First Pilot On My First Bombing Missions! The F-5 Also Is Very Special To Me Because It Was The First Fighter Plane I Ever Flew In...I Put A Dragon In The Painting Because...Squadron...Will Have The Very Best Of It!~07/17/2000~Conv