Cecil Myers:  

School Following graduation my Dad rotated back from Turkey and I went off to Texas A and M. During my sophmore year my high school sweetheart, Sally Hilger moved to Randolph AFB and I spent most of my weekends going to San Antonio. My grades showed the neglect, Sally dumped me and I became a drop-out. I moved to Fort Worth and got a job as an engineer. A year later I enlisted in the Air Force and received an appointment to Aviation Cadets, got my gold bars and silver wings then sat alert in B-52s for 2 1/2 years. I meet a lovely Scotch-Irish-Italian girl from California and got married. It worked out pretty well, we've been married for more than forty years. We have a terrific son who is a Lt. Commander in the Navy. After 2 1/2 years of sitting nuc alert I was ready for some excitement so it was off to S.E.A. flying F-100s and blowing the crap out of palm trees and monkeys. A year and 275 missions later I was assigned to the first USAF A-7 squadron at Myrtle Beach, S.C. Sixteen months later I had a staff job with the new wing being activated at England AFB, La. After six years of being in the same place my roots got kind of deep so instead of accepting an assignment to Hawaii I resigned and became a general contractor and then the Louisiana economy went bust. I had played around on the fringes of politics and knew the right people so I got myself hooked up with the most likely candidate to succeed in a U.S. Senate race. We lost so I found myself on the street looking for a job with a big house note and a kid in college. Next stop Miami as a consultant with an architectural firm doing work in the Caribbean. It was tough work but someone has to go to St. Martin, Aruba and Jamaica to supervise construction of all those beach front resorts. Problem was it was like being back on active duty and being TDY half the time. So, I moved the family to Naples, Florida and started a very successful kitchen and bath remodeling business. We had a house on the bay, I bought a 3...Expand for more