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Need to back up a little bit (B4 Yo-Hi). I'm a Navy Brat. Dad joined after high school and ended up at Peal Harbor on the Nevada December 7th. So this baby boomer and the family following him around (a lot! about every two years). Long Beach, French Morocco, Norfolk (semi foreign country), back to Oregon, Guam, Sonoma, Philippines, Winter Harbor Maine, and then to Yokohama (for 3 years!). Typical military brat life. Start school, leave school, friends etc.
After graduation, I ended up in Imperial Beach studying architecture. Spent summers life guarding at the Officers' pool at Ream Field. Parents and sister went on to Panama. I went to the U of O. There I saw Bill Cosby (Why is there Air?), Timothy Leery, and Rom Dass. To think this might be a liberal school would be putting it mildly. Grades were not where they could have been (can't imagine why) so I went to Portland State studying engineering to bring them up. Then back to the U of O, back to PSU and finally the selective service felt that one of us needed a break, enough. They enrolled me in summer camp at Fort Lewis (WA). We had a scout master that wore a Smokey the Bear hat, he wasn't as cute Smokey and had a bad disposition. We got to camp out, hike a lot, exercise, play with our guns, machine guns, pistols, C4, grenades, 50 Cal, Claymores, M72's..the whole 9 yards. Then the Army's super computer took all this information and individually found each of us our ideal assignments. Half of us, last names from A ~ M went to Germany (me), N ~ Z went to Vietnam. Oddly enough my bunk mate, Carlos, was Mary Nieves's younger brother, went to Vietnam.
After the Army I did some unemployment, needed beer and gas (to fuel a 440GTX) then landed a job with the Clackamas County Planning Department and finally ended up with the City of Portland in 1972 were I worked there the next 30 years, 20 in transportation engineering and 10 in environmental services. Mostly civil engineering and program management. Retired in 2002.
I got married in 1976 to a beautiful women I met her hustling pool with a girl friend at a local tavern. She still plays a pretty damn good game. 1979 she gave birth to a gorgeous little girl... our only child.
Megan was a gifted artist and dancer. She was captain of the dance team in her sophomore year and dance all 4 years. Went on to finish college at PSU. She was selling some of her art work at local shows. Also working on web pages and designs. She died in a car accident when she was 27. We really haven't gotten over it. Parents should never outlive their children.
We were living in a A-frame next to a creek that flowed into Oregon City. Got flooded twice in 96 and decided to moved to higher ground, but we did miss living on the creek. We've owned vacation property towards the Oregon Coast for 38 years. Taken trips to Canada and Mexico, but we keep going back to the island of Kauai. Love it there!
Few hobbies; RC anything, dirt and street bikes, older Volvos, sailing, snorkeling, drag racing, water color painting, wood carving and a few other foolish endeavors.
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