Kenneth Dixson:  

Recent Contacts: Have fairly recently made contact with Richard Boyden, my first room mate at Pacific Univ, and I cherish this great contact every time we communicate.I have contacted Leon Meade, also, a Phi Beta Tau frat brother, as well. My Children: My daughters are independent and making their own way, three have children, and I am a now a great grandfather, (truly GREAT)already at least once, with 5 grandchildren entering the child bearing ages!!! I am proud of them all. My son Kenneth Jr. in his mid 40's, is working on many projects and will also do great things in his life, also, soon. Almost too handsome, he is also very oriented towards making the most of his life. He has a 13 year old son, Kenneth C. Dixson, III, who lives with his mom in Nevada. My son's divorce has removed this grandchild from my eyes, but never my heart. Military After graduating from both OSC and TBS, (Officer's Candidate School and The Basic School) in Quantico, VA, I was sent to Motor Transport Officers School, Montford Point, So. Carolina(Camp Lejeune) and from there received orders to WesPac, and became a member of 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Divison, in Vietnam. In February, 1970 I was assigned to 1st Motor Transport Battalion and became the S-5 after a short stint as the Executive Officer, Bravo Company, 1st Motor Transport Battalion. I returned to the US in August, 1970, and later rejoined the active Marine Corps Reserve as the platoon commander, of the Motor Transport platoon, HQ. 4th Engineer Battalion, at Swan Island, in Portland, Oregon where I served until January 1975. In September 1972 I started Law School at the North West School of Law, Lewis & Clark University, Portland, Oregon graduating in May, 1976. I practiced law in Portland from Septmber, 1977 until May 1988, as a sole practitioner, although I shared space with two former classmates, Keith Raines, now a Washington County, Oregon Circuit Judge, and Roosevelt Robinson,(deceased) who was a Mutlnomah County Circuit Judge at the time of his untimely death in 2005. Since returning to the Los Angeles area in 1989, I have been a bail bondsman, a private investigator, a claims manager, a used car salesman, and now, while semi-retired, have been re-conditioning wooden and fiberglass sail and power boats with an eye towards finding the "right" boat to sail, or power a circumnavigation of the earth before I am too old to do it, or enjoy it. I have been divorced and estranged from my wife of 25 years, Lillian Marie (Nakamura) Dixson since 1991. My Health: I am now seeking compensation for complications arising out of my military service in Vietnam like many others my age who spent at least one 13 month "tour" in Vietnam. I believed John F. Kennedy who said, "ask not what my country can do for me, but what can I do for my country" or something like that. We were just kids off the streets and prairies and hills all across America, just like the young men and...Expand for more