The 60's had a lot of turmoil, of course Vietnam effected just about everyone and everything. We started with Buddy Holly, Elvis and then Beatles, so there was some good in that decade. TVs got color, homes got air conditioning, and I graduated from high school.
I took a train from St. Petersburg to Baltimore the spring of '69. After I returned from the dining car, a young mother and baby were in my seat, so I went to lounge. Spent the entire rest of the trip with a bunch of Army guys, it seemed like they were having more fun than me. After I spend that summer working in a sub shop on the boardwalk in Ocean City Maryland. I returned to Florida and quit college, and even though my draft lottery status was never in jeopardy, I enlisted in the Army January 1970.
I volunteered for Vietnam and what happens, they sent me to Korea for 13 months, and then 12 months in Savannah Georgia. When I got out, I worked for the FAA for the next 8 years. In my free time I bought and sold four new homes before I was 29 years old. The last two I was my own general contractor, without ever getting any real training.
Played on a softball team for five years, bowled in a league, lived on the Gulf Coast in both St. Petersburg and Pensacola, couldn't of asked for better places. The 1970's if I could live them again, I would do it in a heartbeat!!
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