Ralph Ferguson:  

After high school I joined the U.S. Army and remained there for another 21 years. I served most of my assignments in Germany. In 1972 I was in Hanau, Germany assigned to Fliegerhorst Kasern with the 122nd Maintenance Battalion. I returned to the United States for a few months to Ft. Jackson, South Carolina and headed back to Germany after a few months there. In 1976 I traveled to Wackernheim, Germany assigned to the 1/59th Air Defense Artillery. After my assignment in Wackernheim, Germany, in 1979 via Ft. Lee, VA, I was assigned to the Division Material Management Center (DMMC) at Ft. Polk, LA. In 1980 via Ft. Benjamin Harrison, IN for army recruiter training, I headed up to Ft. Hamilton, New York where I was further assigned to Babylon, NY army recruiting station out on Long Island. In 1984 I traveled to Goeppingen, Germany where I was assigned to the 299th Combat Support Bn. In 1987 I left Germany and headed via Ft. Lee, VA to Sacramento Army Depot where I retired from the U.S. Army in April 1993. After retiring from the army, in 1994 I moved from Sacramento, CA to Reno, NV where I presently reside. I just recently celebrated my 58th birthday, and I have been employed with the U.S. Postal Service for the past 15 years and I plan on retiring again in about 4 years. I was in my hometown Wrens, Georgia in 2008 to attend the funeral service for my brother, Johnny Gene Hines when I notice that not too much has changed in terms of structural development. The place where I was born and delivered by mother's cousin, a mid-wife, is ov...Expand for more