Edward Spry:  

To encapsulate ones life in thumbnailed prose fashion most often falls short of the intended goal. So, instead, here are a few SirSpry's factoids : As a youngster I always wanted to be a Minister when I grew up, and in high school I thought that's the life path on which I'd find myself. My family and friends thought that was a fitting idea. As it turns out, they were right. Although, not a Minister, I did teach Sunday School for nearly 40 years, and ran youth groups and activities for them as well. Spending time with young people keeps me youthful. As my silver grey hair attests to, not young in appearance but definitely young in my outlook on things. I have four kids, 2 daughters, a step-daughter, and a step-son. It's funny how even in their 30's and 40's they are still our "kids". Between the four of them I have 7 dogs and only two grandchildren. I keep telling them that before their biological clocks tick ahead or I run out of throw toys, enough dogs, I'd like some more grandchildren. As the song goes,Hunter and Cole, my grandsons, "... light up my life..." After high school, VBHS,can you believe graduation was 45 years ago ? Where was I, oh yeh, after high school I went to ODU for a year, but my love of all things Red-White-&Blue, combined with my academic meandering, and the result was the Army and I made an agreement : I'd enlist, they'd thank me, I'd serve,they'd let me. As things turned out, those were three of the most formative years of my life. Self awareness, bare essential review of myself and what lies at the core of being really important. I was especially taken by the observation that given the chance, kids are kids anywhere. Give them some attention, some safety, a stick or a ball and they define happiness in motion. My high school French came in handy, as any free time I had I spent with the kids in the local village,most of whom spoke Vietnamese, and French, remnants of the time France spent there before us.. Even had several keep in touch when I was back in the U.S. or at least until we withdrew in the early seventies. When I returned to the States, I moved to Long Island to join my wife to be, and enrolled at NYU. Thanks to a fellow officer friend who was in Vietnam with me, I went to work in New York City ...Expand for more