and so i took it then that metabecame dick toliver trapped by circumstances.he chickens are the people who didn't know that there was an eagle inside of me or a burning desire to fly airplanes and so i took that as my way of going forward and how i was going to get free one day to, in fact, fly airplanes. >> mr. toliver, where did you grow up and what did your parents do? >> at that time growing up i was in near shreveport, louisiana, to be very candid, my father and my mother's marriage had failed and six children were left alone in the deep south in the '40s and the '50s. my mother died young trying to raise those six children. and so it was not people of means or parents of great stature, but from that experience and from those who were brought along into my life made it possible for me to go forward. >> now, you self-published this book. why and what was that experience like you? >> after the air force, i spent some 20 years being a developer of small business and entrepreneurship and so on. and when i wrote the book and realized that it was going to take