At Walter Reed, the hospital's Special Forces liaison suggested Wiggins attend the Horatio Alger Lifetime Achievement Awards.
At the event, Wiggins sat next to Delford M. Smith, owner of Evergreen International Aviation, a global aviation services company based in McMinnville, Ore. The two started talking, and Smith invited Wiggins on a day trip.
The outing involved a flight to former President George H.W. Bush's summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, with Bush himself, and an offer from Smith for Wiggins to move to Oregon to serve as executive director of the Evergreen Aviation Museum Campus, known for housing Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose. read more
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