Larry Holmes:  

Life After leaving school I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force where I was an aerial gunner on a B-52D 99th Bombardment Wing Westover AFB Ma. On temporary duty in SEA was involved with Operation Linebacker II in December 1972. After leaving the service I decided to make a career in Law Enforcement, getting my degree in LEA and begining with the Dayton-Hudson Security Police Department I then went to Inkster where I stayed until 1980. After being shot 3 times and several other mishaps I decided to change professions. I took my apprentiship at H.F.C.C. in Metal Model Maker Prototype and worked with Carron & Co. in Inkster. In 1986 I decided to go back into Law Enforcement with the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons in Custody and Security at Milan Correctional Facility. I Graduated from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center at the top of my class and with Honors. In 1989 I came down with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia which thus ended my career. I attempted to return to work in 1994 after 3 years of chemotherapy, but was unable to continue with work because of nerve damage in my back from injections of Methotrexate to the spinal column causing nerve pain and the lack of feeling in the right foot and lower leg and Avascular Nercosis to the right Femerol head, In 1994 I was again shot by a teenage boy at a drugstore in Garden City who attempted to rob me, and with the use of a .177cal pellet pistol shot me 4 times, 1 in the wrist and 3 in the right leg which required surgery to rem...Expand for more