Kenneth Gilder:
CLASS OF 1959
Southside Junior High SchoolClass of 1959
St. petersburg, FL
St. Petersburg High SchoolClass of 1962
St. petersburg, FL
Kenneth's Story
Not too much. Graduated SPHS in 1962, then spent a semester at SPJC before joining the Army. Wound up as a DJ for the American Forces Radio and Television Service; married and widowed in the space of a year (1969-70); made the military a career; served in Korea, Germany, Vietnam, the Canal Zone, and Thailand; had heart trouble and received a double bypass; VA attributed it to exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam; received a sizeable settlement, and now, I just sit around, and sometimes travel.
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s, like free flights on DoD aircraft, on a space available basis. Using that, I've gone to Japan, Korea, Germany, Italy, Hawaii, Guam, and, in the states, to Seattle, where I spent my first five years of elementary school, San Francisco (a beautiful city, but I don't care much for their politics) and Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Washington, DC, where my parents are buried at Arlington National Cemetery. I am looking forward to a trip in July, to wherever I can get, from MacDill AFB. Perhaps back to Hawaii, or maybe to Great Britain.
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