Daniel Hough:  

I graduated from Bergan High School in Fremont, Nebraska in 1962. After high school I joined the Air Force. I was stationed at Lackland AFB in Texas, Lowery AFB in Colorado however I spent most of my time at McClellan AFB in Sacramento, California. After leaving the Air Force, I worked for many different Aerospace Companies, including Boeing, Ryan, Rohr and General Dynamics. While working at General Dynamics in San Diego, California, I met my wife Betty. I had always talked about going back to school to become a lawyer, but it seemed to never get done. Betty gave me the shove I needed. When I asked her to marry me she said she would, but that I had to finish Law School first. In 1975 at the age of 30 I went back to school. Normally, you need to have four years of college before starting Law School. However, I was able to enter as a Special Student based upon my LSAT score. Western State University College of Law accepted Special Students (Students without an undergraduate degree) if they could make over 500 on the LSAT which was the median score at that time. That meant that a person without college had to beat over 50% of those with college taking the test. You needed a 500 to get in, I got a 501. It was destiny. Completing Law School while working was a big challenge, especially since my job at General Dynamics had me traveling all over the country every week. Many times I would get off an airplane and go straight to night class. Things however were going to get even tougher. In 1978, just before my final year at Law School, my fiancee Betty had a stroke from a brain aneurysm. The stroke left here with brain damage that left her with limited use of her left arm and hand and unable to walk. I took the summer off school to help with her recovery. She was in rehabilitation, but they were not allowing her to even try and walk. So, when I took her home on weekend visits, we started trying to see if she could ta...Expand for more