Bill McDonald:  

While still in high school, my first job was at McDonalds,(Duxberry and Cleveland) where I got paid $3.25 per hour to flip burgers. What I remember most about it is how I hated it when classmates called me "Ronald". After graduation I joined the U.S.Air Force in 1966 and was sent to Vietnam with the 377th Combat Security Police squadron in Saigon, R.V.N.( for reference Google "Tan Son Nhut air base,1968 TET / The battle for Saigon). I returned stateside and after being promised my stateside base of my choice as reward for voluntary assignment to Vietnam, ( I chose Lockbourne AFB now Rickenbacher Airfield,or Wright Patterson trying to stay close to home), I was stationed at Blytheville, AFB in beautiful, downtown Blytheville, Arkansas.Serving with the 97th Security Police Squadron. Believe me, in 1968 that was no place for a black man to be. Hell, they had just shot Martin Luther King while I was still in Vietnam. But I survived that too and joined the Columbus Police Department from 70 to 72, then worked as a private undercover narcotics agent from 72 to 74, then the Franklin Co. Sheriffs Department from 1974 to 1982. During my time on the Sheriff's Department I had been assigned to the divisions of Corrections, Patrol, Court...Expand for more