Jerry Gaspard:  

Halito Hitak Ikhanas, Greetings Friends, Chim achukma, Riverview alumni? It is funny how these reunion web sites like Classmates, can really make one feel so insignificant. What I mean is this. You cruise through your high school years thinking that because of your academic, athletics, or the body most lusted after, you will be immortalized in the Halls of Riverviewdom, but, only to find out, in a remarkably short period of time, that you were just a drop in the ocean of high school life. First off, I would like to apologize to the people I hurt,lied to or let down. School and life were not the happiest time for me, lets see, how do they say this, I had issues, but yet, it had its moments. After graduation, I tried hard at flunking out of Manatee Junior. How do you flunk out of a JC? Guess what? I succeeded!! In 1963, I joined the Navy. I spent four years, four months, and three days, as a Hospital Corpsman (Search and Rescue) and the last year, I was attached to the Fleet Marine Force, 1st Marine Division (1963-1967). After exiting the Navy, I bummed around the country with some of the Ringling Art School people and ended up in California during the late sixties, FAR FREAKING OUT! I was a biker, owned a 52 FLH Panhead, which I chopped and then settled down, got married, I have two children, a daughter, who is a patrol deputy sheriff and a son, who is studying social science and tattoo artistry. I challenged the nurses exam and worked as a nurse at Santa Monica Hospital Emergency Room for about five years. We then moved to Idaho, where I was a resident deputy sheriff, bounty hunter, bail bondsman, and a Correctional Officer. I had a saw accident a...Expand for more