October 2nd is my father’s & my grandfather’s birthday, and October 3rd is my brother Jerry’s birthday. Quite a triad.

Jerry Dale is the youngest of three sons in my family of origin. It always seemed fitting that I would have three sons too. That my youngest would be born on the 3rd and that all three of my son’s birthdays would be in one month within 9 days, 3 x 3, of each other in February, of course, seemed triply appropriate.

As to the Brothers Coleman, they are Bill, Jerry, and that’s me, the oldest, holding the ball. My baby sister Susan is not shown. Click on the image for a larger version.

Jerry Dale Coleman was the first investigator to talk to Ruth and Marlon Lowe about the Thunderbird abduction. The description he obtained from the eyewitnesses was exacting, and has been a primary source for most of what is found in the literature since that April 1977 incident, as for example, in Mark A. Hall’s Thunderbirds: America’s Living Legends of Giant Birds

My brother Jerry became an author in his own right.

Here are Jerry’s book covers.

As many of you know, Jerry has been suffering from throat and lung cancer, which he first announced in April 2008, although some remission appears to have set in recently, thank goodness.

I wish him the best, good health, and rapid recovery in Tennessee on his 58th! Cryptozoology needs him out there again, investigating cases in the hills.

Please…