Jose Flores:  

Life It’s hard to imagine that it has been almost forty years since we graduated from high school. So much has happened to all of us. Like many of you, I went to college after graduation. Unlike many of you, I promptly flunked out my first year. This was a direct result of excessive partying and no studying. So I did the next best thing…..I joined the Navy. I was pretty lucky though, because for the next nine years of my military career, I was fortunate enough to be assigned to a few good duty stations like Florida, the Philippines, Hawaii, and Southern California. About this same time, I also got married and would eventually have three daughters. The marriage lasted for twelve years, but my daughters were forever. During my last tour of duty, I decided that it might be a good idea to get my college education, so I pursued a degree in Criminal Justice and eventually graduated with my B.S. from Southwest Texas State University. That was the beginning of my twenty-eight year career in law enforcement. I spent the last sixteen years of my police career as a detective, and I was also a hostage/crisis negotiator and police instructor for eighteen years. In 1987 I fell in love with and married a beautiful lady whose name is Patti. She and I have been happily married for just over twenty years now. Patti had a daughter from a previous marriage, so that brought me up to four daughters. About three years before I retired from the...Expand for more