As I grow older each year, I tend to think back on what was,
what could have been and wonder where did it all go so fast.
Residences
My earliest memories are of military housing in:
California, Hohnshu, Japan, and Hanau, Germany.
It seems like every time I got used to one school,
we moved to another base and a new school.
It was near to impossible to make friends.
After Germany we moved back home to the
Eastwood Village Apartments near Madisonville, Ohio.
Since then I have lived in:
Main Bulau, Germany, Erbach, Germany, Hanau Germany,
Saint Gallen, Switzerland, Hartwell, Ohio, Deer Park, Ohio,
Woodland Park, Colorado,
Divide, Colorado, Beech Grove, Indiana,
Milford, Ohio and Batavia, Ohio.
Education
I attended the Eastwood Elementary School and
Shortly after I started Lyon Junior High School I was enrolled
The year after I started the Ohio Military Institute
Afterwards I was sent back to Mom and she
I had already graduated "High School" in Switzerland but
I made it as far as the eleventh grade, quit and joined the U. S. Navy.
After the Navy I kind of drifted a while and wound up
I met my wife of twenty-one years there.
In 1991 I was diagnosed with heart problems and unable to work,
I got my divorce this same year.
In 1992 I was diagnosed with Spinal Stenosis.
In 2002 I had open heart sugery (6-way by-pass)
then Lyon Junior High School.
into the Ohio Military Institute in North College Hill, Ohio.
A private boarding school with boot camp style training.
I was sent to Main Bulau, Germany to live with my Dad.
Then on to Switzerland and a private International boarding school;
the Institute Auf Dem Rosenberg.
I was there for three years, except for Christmas.
had moved to Hartwell, Ohio to be closer to her work
and I began to attend Central High School in Cincinnati.
the Cincinnati Board of Education did not recognize their certificates.
They required me to attend attended Central High School in Cincinnati
for Summer School, the eleventh grade, Summer School, the twelfth grade
and again, Summer School. Something about "credits."
I received my High School diploma in three days while in Boot Camp.
working at Drake Hospital in Hartwell, Ohio.
Drake was a Terminal Hospital at the time.
We had three sons, Arthur, Keith and Eric.
I applied for Social Security Disability Income.
Which after a year of struggling, was finally approved.
(L-1, L-2, L3, L-4, L-5)
Making walking a most painful experience.
I now travel in a three wheel electric scooter.
and surgery on my right coradid artery (the neck).