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User:Marine57

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This user:

  • was born in 1940
  • my older brother and I chose a Jacobson lawnmower instead of a T.V. in 1952
  • won a trip to Washington, D.C. by getting 20 new starts on my paper route in 1953
  • arrested for shooting a firearm within city limits (boy was dad mad) 1953
  • made our 7th grade "straight A" student throw-up by scraping off a banana bruise on the edge of my lunch tray
  • graduated from grade school in 1954
  • took Army R.O.T.C. in high school; flunked Latin twice before finally passing with a "D"
  • was accepted into the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves in 1957
  • placed 3rd in the 1958 Indiana U.S.M.C.R. Small-bore Rifle Championships
  • placed 3rd in the 1959 Indiana U.S.M.C.R. Small-bore Rifle Championships
  • graduated from High School in 1959
  • was awarded "High Rifle" with a 235 out of 250 at U.S.M.C. Boot Camp, Parris Island, S.C.
  • flunked out of Purdue and went into active duty, U.S.M.C., in 1962
  • was picked up by the U.S.M.C. Rifle Team, Quantico, VA. in 1963
  • went Distinguished NRA High-Powered Rifle in 1965
  • placed 22nd in the 1966 National Service Rifle Matches, Camp Perry, Ohio
  • received Honorable Discharge, missed becoming a sniper in 'Nam in 1967
  • became a born again Christian in 1970
  • graduated from Purdue University with a 3.0 average, M.E.T., 1971
  • worked 18 years in Product Design; awarded a U.S. Patent on the design of an elect-mech switch
  • marriage failed after 25 years
  • worked 18 years in Layout, Quality Control (U.A.W. member)
  • spent 5 years writing a cad-cam program in Microsoft-PDS/Fortran languages
  • spent 2 years writing an Accounting program in Microsoft PDS (I hate MS Money, Quicken, Peachtree)
  • second marriage failed after 7 years
  • have a cat - her name is "Cammie"
  • rather than becoming a retread, retired in 2002
  • using FrontPage, began writing a personally-owned Christian web page in 2004
  • became a Christian Education Evangelist in 2006