James Vanslette:  

Life I can do this in short...after graduation, I joined the Air Force, came back from Basic Training, married Judy Blanchard, and was assigned to Omaha, Nebraska as a Computer Maintenance technician. After 4 years, I cross-trained into Air Traffic Control (for the military) and moved to Cocoa Beach, Fl, where Jamie and Jason, my twins were born. Seven years later, I was reassigned on a remote tour to Greenland for 1 year, and upon return, Judy decided to move back to Florida with the kids and her boyfriend, while I was assigned to California. I remarried later that year to Anette, a Danish girl I knew from Greenland, and she moved out to California. In 1991, I got an assignment the Honolulu, Hawaii serving as an Advisor to the Air National Guard for Air Traffic Control. Late 1994, I accepted an assignment to Spangdahlem Air Force Base in Germany where I stayed for 4 more years. Then a quick 2 year tour in Turkey where I retired from the Air Force after 24 years. We drove to Denmark, where I got an apartment, started Danish language school, and today, I own a nice house, work as a Technical Writer for Microsoft, have 2 kiddies, a 9 year old boy and an 8 year girl. The twins still live in Cocoa Beach for the most part, and go to college. Update: In 2005, I finally got through a messy divorce with the Danish girl, Anette. Seem her only motive for getting me into Denmark with the kids was to collect the furniture and my pension. Well, she didnt get the pension...so there are some benefits to living in Denmark after all. In October of 2005, I realized I was going to be alone in a foreign country with no kids or family for Christmas. In desperation, I signed up with a profile on Match.com dating site...and in that very same weekend, I met my true soul-mate, and best friend ever...my sweet Lisbeth. Liz lived just 10 miles down the road from me, a single mother of 1 daughter, 14 at the time. We moved in together by January that year, and in Sep 2007, we got married. My life has never been better, happier, and love-filled as it is now. Each and every day with my Liz is truly a blessing. Makes all the stuff I went through with the wrong people for all those years worth it!!! School Let's see, I only went to Dixie for 2/3 of 11th, and then 12th grade so I missed meeting a bunch of folks, especially being such an intravert as I was with the big, honking nose I had (yep...had that big puppy sliced right off paid for by YOUR tax dollars in the military). Yeah, I didn't do too much in school...it was a piece of cake so I didn't really have to study to get those "A" grades. But I sure did love going to Business Ed classes in the morning with all the girls...I was one of two guys...gotta love that! And I worked in the afternoons at Sun Bank downtown St. Pete...was a blast! I still remember I only got paid $450 a month, and going into the military was a raise to $625. Has that bank folded yet??? Colleg...Expand for more