A reader from Idaho just sent us a clipping about Aberdeen artist Ben Victor, who is completing an impressive sculptor of a WWII bomber pilot that will stand at the Boise airport. We've heard of Ben and seen some of his work. He also has an impressive Web site, and we suspect that his name may be quite well known before too long.

Boisean Chet Bowers, a B-17 pilot who flew two missions over Normandy, loaned Victor his uniform to help with the design. The statue will commemorate Gowen Field where 6,000 pilots and crew (among them, Jimmy Stewart) trained for missions in the great war.