Aaron Lambert:  

My Story After graduation(67) I went to ball State that fall. Not ever having freedom and not being an adult I screwed up big time. Partied my way onto academic probation. I dropped out to help pay my parents back the money they had borrowed to send me there. May of 69 my friends and neighbors choice me for the army. I went in on June 3rd. I trained for what seemed like 2 yrs (actually June to Sept) at Ft Lenardwood, MO. In Oct. I shipped out to Nam. I was a combat air mobile engineer (ran heavy equipment). We built bases and landing zones. On Dec 3rd my father was hit by a car while he was crossing a street in Cedar Lake. He lived until Dec 13th. I arrived home on the 6th. I put in for a hardship discharge and received it the following Feb. I worked as a water driller¿s helper with Lowell Well & Pump co. (Lee (Willy) Carlson). Later that year I met and married Sharon Black. She was 6 yrs my senior and had 3 daughters, an instant family. We moved to Orlando, FL. I spent the next couple of years working for the mouse(Disney¿s own construction company). I was a journeyman carpenter. Sharon and I split up in 73 and I moved back to Shelby. After our divorce I met and married Vicki Dauber of Cedar Lake. We adopted our daughter(Amanda) in 1980. I served an electrical apprenticeship with Inland Steel. Worked there from 74 to 85. In 85 we moved to Lansing MI. and I went to work for GM. There it seemed that Scotty had beamed me up and put me down in the future. Electrically speaking everything I worked on at Inland had but installed in 1939¿..everything in Lansing was robotics and other automation. I felt like an apprentice again. I started taking classes from ...Expand for more