Whisper on a barely remembered breeze. Jimmy had to learn, had to go back into the past and rescue Don Peterson.

As her divorce from David Bomann became final, Jacque decided to do what she could to help Jimmy on his journey by moving her family to Pismo Beach, where he could be reunited with the Petersons. For Don's parents, his siblings, and the entire extended family, watching Jimmy walk into the room was wonderful but heart wrenching. At age 16, Jimmy was a carbon copy of his father. It was as though Don had come back to them whole and young - unchanged - after so many sad years of absence. There were tears for what had been missed, but there was also great joy at a family reunited. Jacque went back to school, taking courses toward a nursing degree, as she and her children started life over again. Jimmy went to a much larger school now, a school that offered him more chances to indulge his rebellious side, and he was a constant presence at the doors of the various Petersons. He wanted to learn everything he could about his father. What had he been like? Was he athletic? Was he an artist? Was he a surfer? Everything. He heard all of the stories about his dad, comfortable and well-worn stories that other families swap over giving or Christmas dinners to nods of group remembrance. But to Jimmy they were all so new. The thing that was most obvious was that the Petersons loved Don deeply and missed him dearly. After nearly 16 years their pain was still fresh, so near the surface and so constant. Vietnam to them was not the past but a living, organic part of their beings. The shared agony of the Petersons' unhealed scars opened new wounds in Jimmy. Instead of finding closure, finding a father, he was more confused than ever.

Jacque graduated as a Licensed Vocational Nurse in 1985, sometimes working three jobs to keep food on the table. She focused her remaining energy on her children, helping them in any way shecould. Along the way, she slowly drifted apart from the Petersons again, but she has never forgotten Don. His love and the short time of contentedness that they once knew remain at the core of her being. Although she still works, is outwardly vibrant, and remains devoted to her family, in her soul is a stillness. It is only when she thinks or speaks of Don that she feels truly at peace.