Donald Decker:  

Life It is 2023 and time to update this and my photo, I guess. I live in Muskego with my wife, and my daughter has married and purchased a house with her husband in Williams Bay. Our two boys are on their own; the oldest is married and has two daughters and the youngest is now engaged and has a house in Muskego. Both boys are no longer working with me being as I am now retired! Finally. I worked as a technical writer/illustrator full time, and have also freelanced for about 10 years. I drew a cartoon strip for about 10 years and wrote magazine articles (mostly car stuff) for about six years. I recently finished writing a non-fiction book on WW2 (15th air force based in Italy). It is available in the Muskego library. I have an idea for a novel (as does every retired person, I guess). I may start that project eventually. I got lucky after being drafted and trained as a combat engineer; I wound up as a military artist in Korea for a year and a half. I really enjoyed my time and had time to see things and interact with a culture I never would have had an opportunity to see as a young man. Aside from a soldier's usual bar time, I was able to visit with some of the Korean soldier's families and learn a bit of the language. If you've seen M*A*S*H, that is exactly how we lived (except we had Quonset huts). I left the Army as a sergeant. It was pretty good duty considering Vietnam was at full tilt then. I met some LIFE magazine photographers there, and got interested in photography. I studied commercial art and photography in college and also did some magazine photography for a while. Prior to my job as a writer, I worked at Allen-Bradley for ten years (just enough for the pension), and then at Miller Brewing for another five. We've done a little traveling, mostly in the US (although my work sent me to Germany once and also Hawaii, whi...Expand for more