WP33: Air Force Academy grad and retired airline pilot Patty Bear talks about how her father's excommunication from the Mennonite church led to her liberation in the air.

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In this excerpt from my interview with Patty Bear about her book From Plain to Plane: My Mennonite Childhood, a National Scandal, and an Unconventional Soar to Freedom, she introduces the book and talks about how her brother’s interest in flying led her to the Air Force Academy.

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