He fell asleep on the floor beside her bed. He might have been exhausted sometimes, but it didn't stop him from playing tennis with his son Marcus, 14. He said it often. Wednesday, David Riggs' wife, Nancy, looked down at a snapshot on her dining room table. In the picture, it is Montreal.
Snow covers the ground.
David Riggs sits at the back of a toboggan with his young daughter and two sons, squinting, smiling, lined up in front of him. She met her husband of 26 years on an ice-skating trip when they were teenagers. Once, to surprise her after he got his pilot's license, he flew a small plane over her house. He loved his family, she said, but flying also gave him joy. He planned much of his life around planes.