I had a love for aviation from childhood and enlisted to fly in the Navy. Half way through my training a flight instructor recognized my poor eyesight that previously a doctor failed to catch. Once out of the Navy, but not before two tours of Nam, I met my wife and mother to our nine children. During our first few years together, her father and her brother were both shot down and killed in Vietnam. We have twenty grandchildren and anticipate more.    

Won many awards for sales in insurance and investments. Wrote a few articles on life insurance for sales magazines and a couple of inspirational articles on aviation and how it motivated me.