I was born in the hills of Pennsylvania on the cusp of the Great Depression and the Second World War. I ran away from home at the age of fifteen, joined the Navy when I was sixteen. After spending eleven years there, I realized the Navy wasn't for me, so I joined the Air Force. I can only surmise I wasn't ready to work for a living. The military educated me and taught me there was always someone over me giving orders. I could barely read or write when I joined the Navy. When I retired from the Air Force, with twenty years of service, I managed to earn a high school diploma from the state of more...
