Was a single parent for many years, youngest was 4, oldest 12 when I became a bachelor for the second time. Navy brat that spent 6 years in the Navy. Was in country to witness the take over of Marcos in the Philippines and the return of our POWs after NAM when they were processed through Clark Air Force Base. While I was in the military I was sent to and advanced electronics school in San Diego had a Marine Recon and a ROC (Korean) navy enlisted type as roommates at the same time. I currently own my own business, industrial consumables sales.

Collin Powell and his wife

Work, reading, gardening and fishing.

Gardening, reading (love military history) and fishing.

Mixed interests

Reality TV and getting into peoples heads. American Idol is great to so-so depending on the talent, which is fantastic this season.

Currently reading Wilbur Smith's books. Great reading. Also read Terry Goodkind and Harry Turtledove. Always looking for more books on Queen Victoria's Little wars. Conflicts of the British Colonial period are great reading. Boer Wars of South Africa are interesting both from their political and warfare aspects.

Winstom Churchill "Yes, madame I am drunk! But in the morning I will be sobber. You on the other hand are ugly and in the morning will still be ugly!"

“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burnout in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not just to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

Jack London
1876-1916


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Don't
know where it came from, but..... If you are looking for sympathy, the only place in this world you are sure to find it is in the dictionary between shit and syhilis."


Bible "Pater Si Vis, Transfer Calicem Istem A Me." "Ego Enim Eram Pincerna Regis."

Favorite Poems:

My Love in her attire doth show her wit,
...It doth so well become her;
For every season she hath dressings fit,
...For Winter, Spring, and Summer.
......No beauty she doth miss
.........When all her robes are on:
......But Beauty's self she is
.........When all her robes are gone.

.....Madrigal by Anonymous


I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.

Abraham Lincoln

My father
Alvin York
Jimmy Stewart