Patrick Geier:  

How will my old friends remember me?? I'll be happy if they remember me at all!! If they do, I hope they will remember someone who loved to laugh and hear others laugh, and who got a tremendous amount of pleasure just from spending time with the great friends that he was blessed to have. Unfortunately, they will probably not remember the hansome young man that was burried beneath all that really bad hair for the first three years of HS! If they were smart, they blackened me out of their yearbooks! I know I did! I have moved around a little since HS. I stuck around for a while and worked a few jobs before joining the Navy as a nuclear submarine operator in 1990. I had gotten a little burned out, and new that I was finally ready to go to school, but couldnt afford to not work. The navy was the perfect solution, as the nuclear program was fairly intensive training and I got paid too! As it turns out, it was the best move I ever made. The navy took me to Florida, South Carolina, and then to Connecticut, where I have stayed since getting out in 1996. I would probably still be in, but during a brief illness they incorrectly diagnosed me with asthma, which disqualified me for submarine duty, so I opted out. I now work in Environmental Management with General Dynamics, Electric Boat Division. The company co-builds the navy's nuclear submarines with Newport-Grumman in VA. My only real ...Expand for more