Funny how time works. You see the 96-year-old man (Gordon Jenkins) holding the poodle in this front-page photo? Looks like he couldn’t or wouldn’t harm a fly, doesn’t he? Go back 77 years (the summer of 1942), and he was flying as a gunner onboard a dive bomber, firing rounds into Japanese Zeros (fighter planes). Ah, the passage of time, how it changes the face of a man. When WWII ended, through countless acts of heroism, Jenkins had earned the AirCrew Wings with three stars, two Air Medals, three Unit Commendation Ribbons, the Presidential Unit Citation, and no less than 10 ...