David Frey:
CLASS OF 1980
Tinley Park High SchoolClass of 1980
Tinley park, IL
David's Story
I don¿t know if people in high school remember me at all. I was a pretty good student until my mother died, after that I suffer from depression and narcolepsy of all things. The funny thing about the narcolepsy is that no one told me it was happening. My family thought it was funny when I would fall out of my chair and after the seizure was over just get back in it. When my idiot father finally did the right thing and took me to the doctor I had no clue why we were going. They gave me some pretty strong medication and it left me out of it most of the last three years of high school. I think most people thought I was stand offish or high, when in reality I just wanted to be liked and to this day I have never taken illegal drugs.In my senior year they weaned me off the drug. Apparently my brain rerouted around the dain bramage that was causing the seizures. My doctor told me never to tell anyone that I once had narcolepsy because people discriminate against those with epilepsy in any form.
The September out of high school I joined the Air Force and was trained as an electronic technician specializing in radio and data systems. I got to travel the world and see a lot of amazing things. I have lived in Germany, Italy, and Turkey and traveled to most the other countries in Europe as well as a few in Asia and the Middle East. One of the cool places I worked was in Chyann (I know it¿s spelled wrong, if it is not in the spell checker I can¿t spell it...Expand for more
) Mountain. Something that completely changed my perspective on life was during a trip I crossed over check point Charlie into East Berlin (the communist side) as a show the flag operation. Under the four powers agreement any of the four could go anywhere in the city as long as they were in uniform. It opened my eyes to the evils of communism. The people were terrified of me, I had never even had a person even slightly scared of me and these people were terrified. I walked up to a out doors food bar and everyone but the waiter got up and left the area with their food uneaten because I found out later that if they were caught by the party police even talking to me they could spend years in a gulag. No one should have to live in fear of their government. I left the Air Force after eight years.
I spent the first two years after the Air Force managing a communications station on a mountain in Turkey as a civilian contractor for the AF until my company lost the contract.
In 1990 I began working at Cape Canaveral as a Launch Operations inspector on the Titan IV rocket inspecting the solid rocket motors until the Titan program ended in 2004.
Now I work at a satellite ground station in Virginia.
I would really like to hear from anyone who remembers me from those years because most of them are foggy from the Dilantent (sic). The people who stand out the most to me were Judy Naggie, Beth Edwards and Ricky Hoffman, if you¿re out there send me an email.
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