When Major Michael Donnelly was instructing his U.S. Air Force student pilots, he used to tell them three things: Timing is everything, it's nice to be lucky, and there is no justice. Highly decorated fighter pilot, proud young patriot, loyal friend, loving husband and father of two, he could not have imagined the tragic meaning those words would assume just a few years after his tour of duty in Desert Storm. In 1996 Major Donnelly was diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease, at the unusually young age of 35. Betrayed by his body, eventually paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair, he experienced a betrayal even more difficult to comprehend--that of his country. For despite the fact that over 110, 000 Desert Storm veterans are sick, many dying of mysterious cancers and neurological diseases, the Pentagon adamantly denies any connection between their illnesses and their service in the Gulf War.