Rick Townsend is a retired USAF fighter pilot (F-15 and other aircraft) and commercial airline pilot. He is currently an independent historian with a Ph.D. in “History of Ideas” — where concepts meet and influence culture, and vice versa. His doctoral thesis was on the ways in which William Jennings Bryan used rights-based arguments as when advocating for various cultural causes. He lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas with his wife, Gail. They have three sons and five grandchildren.
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