John Coalter:  

Life I am married to the same woman for 43 years, have a son and a daughter and each has 2 daughters and my daughter also has a son. I have spent 3 years in the Army,serving 1 year in Vietnam(including the Tet offensive). I became married when first joining up and my son was born during my last year served at Ft. Meade., Md. while we lived first at Laurel, Md. and finally Baltimore. I returned to Lowell, where I bought a house and became a master electrician. I built a house in Dracut with my brother-in-law to sell while working as an electrician. Times were bad and I had to buy my partner out when the house would't sell and he became laid off. I then sold my 2 family in Lowell and moved into the Dracut home and have lived there since 1974. Having been laid off as an electrician in 1975 I took all kinds of civil service tests finally becoming a Metropolitan Police Officer after having returned to work as an electrician in Boston fo...Expand for more