Anthony Young:  

Life I came to this website because I heard there will be a class reunion. We all wonder about our childhood friends, and so why be superficially polite…This will be a quick roughly written bio. (Forgive the grammatical errors)Here we go... I left DC because I had no money for college, nor was I ready for it. I spent 5 years in the US Air Force. This start afforded me a chance to grow up and learn about the world. Lived most of my early 20’s on a NATO Base with only a handful of low key Americans in picturesque Southern Holland. I learned Dutch, traveled & acclimated well. Also lived a great 4 months in Turkey under the same circumstances and came to appreciate history and the world outside our own paradigm. Ironically,the most foreign country I ever lived in was Las Vegas, Nevada. It was there I finished my tour of duty. The first night there, I lost $40 in two minutes. Never gambled again. When I was in Holland, I started interacting with an intriguing network of underground movements into the very closed country of the USSR. I still go often. Then,I studied Russian at Indiana University through a great summer program in Russia. All these experiences forced me to think about life a bit more seriously. I was a seeker that took on a a sort of “Saint Francis Of Assisi” philosophy . Talk has always been cheap to me. I stayed in Vegas for two years and made a serious commitment to work with the downcast. I helped with a 24 hr hotline and also helped run a small restaurant that was more like a mission to the downcast than a restaurant on the “Downtown Strip“. Then in 1986 in the midst of working with drug addicts and con-artists, my deepest ambitions were resurrected. Through a bizarre set of circumstances, I was given a job at the US Embassy in Moscow. I lived there from the day before Chernobyl in 1986 until just after the peace summits in 1989. In a word, they were crazy and intriguing times. All this has brought me many adventures and worthwhile...Expand for more