Philip Bowers:  

As most of my class-mates would know I went into the Army 4 months after graduation, wantd to get away from home and see the world. I got lost for 7 years seeing the world, spent most of my active duty abroad. When I did return home I found I felt out of place. My father once told me, that when you go away for such a period, you can never find home again. Two weeks after returning home I acceptted a position as a manager in Avon Park, Fl. There, I aided in opening the first Plasma Center within a prison compund in Florida. After a couple of years I returned to school (college), moved to Tampa and somewhere along the way I became a single parent of two girls. Working full time, school full time and parenting full time. It was quite an experience being Mom/ Dad. I still get happy Mothersday cards from my daughters. I took a position with the stateof Fl as a job developer (VA), did not find it i...Expand for more