My mother lost her first husband during WW 2. He flew a Spitfire and was shot down flying back to base. He left behind my brother who was a baby at the time. I don't know if the two ever saw each other.
I was born many years later. Mom had remarried. My brother and I were 14 years apart in age.
The play deals with the effects of war, how sometimes the injured never see battle. War scars families for many generations.
When I was about 10 or so my brother came home for a weekend. He was a figure skater with Ice Capades. He brought everyone a present. My present was a model airplane, a Spitfire.
I'm midway through a first draft. We'll see if this has legs.