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THE CHANDLER ARIZONAN | WWW.CHANDLERNEWS.COM | OCTOBER 3, 2021
2 Chandler WWII vets get flight of their lives BY KEN SAIN Staff Writer
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t took some convincing for Chandler veteran Frank Forte to agree to be part of Operation September Freedom. He is 93, after all. Not so for 95-year-old James Campbell, who was eager for the experience. “That plan was immaculate,” Forte said. “When you got on it, you knew it was safe. It wasn’t just some balsa wood.” The two Atria Chandler Villas residents each took a half-hour flight aboard a restored World War II-era Boeing Stearman biplane on Sept. 15. They each got a turn with a pilot as the only passengers as they flew over southern
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World War II veterans James Campbell, left, and Frank Forte were thrilled to get a flight in a WWII-era biplane two weeks ago, thanks to Dream Flight's Operation September Freedom. (Courtesy of Dream Flight)
Chandler author’s 2nd novel right out of headlines
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handler author Howard Gershkowitz’s second novel departs from science fiction and focuses instead on fraud and corporate greed. A couple years ago, Gershkowitz, a Chandler resident for 19 years who has been in the financial services industry for 35 years, published the “The Operator” – a novel set in Prescott that involves time travel, the economy and romance. This time, his new book, “Not on My Watch,” is a thriller inspired by some news stories he read. It involves a nurse who, with her broker/boyfriend, must stop the merger of the only locally owned, independent hospital with a ruthless conglomerate out of Boston intent on turning it into a Medicare mill. “This book was inspired by an article about a hospital back east that was indicted for Medicare fraud to the tune of
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Chandler resident Howard Gershkowitz has published his second novel and has three more underway that he hopes to put in readers hands in the next 18 months. (Courtesy of Howard Gershkowitz)
