When Bruce Cottington enlisted in 1942, he joined the Navy, but was later assigned to a new Marine Corps unit called the Amphibians. The unit fought on land and sea, and Cottington prepared battle sites in the Pacific during World War 2. (The amphibian unit was the precursor to the Navy SEALS.)
Pat, who is going on 107 years old, says she was surprised that her difficulty breathing was caused by a heart problem, not her lungs.
Laura Erickson joins us to talk about her new book, “Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds.” She teamed up with Marie Read of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to produce a photo book of familiar birds: from the first “meet cute” of the parents right through the “empty nest.”
