David Holden:  

Life Iwas born in Spokane Washington. I attended Lincoln elementary through 5th grade. My friends and I played cowboys in all the vacant land between 5th and 6th streets by Deacones hospital. I moved to Camden Arkansas in 1955 and lost my only sibling, my sister in an auto/train wreck in October of that year. My parents divorced and my mother and I came back to Spokane for my 7th grade at Irving elementary, and then to Bethleham Conn. for the eigth grade. I did the 9th grade in Camden AR and went to Concord Calif. after my mother remarried,for the 10th grade, then back to Spokane to graduate from Shadle Park. I tried college back in Concord Calif. but had my heart set on a girl from high school. She seemed to like men in uniform and I joined the Army.I married Maggie Wagner from our class at Shadle Park High, went to Nam three days later, and served with the 117th Assult Helicopter compny. I came back a changed man from all I had seen and done. I went to college on the GIBill at EW, but got asked to leave after one term, went to Spokane Falls Community college for two years, graduated Whitworth in 1971, went to work for the State of Idaho as a social worker for nine years, doing child protection, adoptions, fos...Expand for more