David Fitzwater:  

Life Wow, 1961 seems a life time away and Central HS is a blur of short reminiscences. After graduation I enlisted in the Air Force and my first assignment was Alaska. I rode out the big earthquake of Good Friday 1964 and I have been quaking ever since. I spent a year in Tennessee learning and training on the C-130 aircraft which would eventually transport me around the world for the next 15 years. Then off to Vietnam for my first of three tours of duty as part of a clandestine outfit that supported the Fifth Special Forces and their SOG operations. In between tours I got married had two boys and finally got station in Arizona again. I retired a Senior Master Sergeant with Bronze Star, several Air Medals, nine battle campaigns and Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry to name a few. I went back to school earning a Bachelor of Science in Aviation and Master’s in Business. I spent four years on the NASA Shuttle Program fabricating the External Tank. The Company transferred me to Colorado to build commercial missiles ending up that program with a successful launch of the first mission to Mars. I got downsize and fFor the first time in thirty years I found my self without study employment. But why worry as Jack Palace said in City Slickers: “You want to know the secret to life, it is just one, thing, just one thing, once you figure that out everything else don’t mean shit.”. So I figured out the secret and started my own company which gave me time to be the state congressional district chairperson for a 1972 presidential race. I decided to run for city council but I lost and never got one kickback for all my efforts, I am currently working on Boeing’s new 787 all composite Dreamliner and it looks like it is going to revolutionize aircraft fabrication. For my time off I have prospected in Alaska and Arizona but never made the big strike just some flakes and dust sounds like a gay bar in ...Expand for more