Charmaine Fausel:  

Story telling time... left high school and had my one and only child the next year, my son. Met my first husband after he came home from Vietnam and we were married for almost two years. We were just too young and dumb. But we had a great time. After, I worked all kinds of jobs to support me and my son from factory work to pumping gas. It wasn't always fun but with a deadbeat dad you do what you have to. I finally got a decent job with Western Electric making a good paycheck and also met my second husband. He switched jobs to one of the big car factories but kept getting laid off so I worked and put him through school. After I had worked about five years the phone company made it's big split and I was laid off. Things were tight in MI and after almost two years a plant in Nashville, TN opened and offered jobs to laid off CWA workers. From the time...Expand for more