Patrick Steinert:  

Lets start out today , which is Monday November 2 2009, and I and my third wife, Tanya, are living in Markle Indiana, which is 21 miles south west of Ft. Wayne IN. , Markle it self has around 1100 bodies if you want to count all of the dogs, and you can drive through here in between 5 and 10 seconds, so it's not to big. I'll tell you all what, if you like cold weather this is the place to move to. Come late September earley October the hight's it gets around here is in the low 70's hight 60's, and some times by late October it has snowed here. So winter moves in very fast when it starts. Well I guess that we might as well go back a few years or so and see what I have been in to. 1961= the first year that I ever had a girl friend, that was in the 7th grade, her name was Vickie Jo and she lived over on Pea Ridge, that's when we lived on Barber St. and I would walk over to her house to see her on weekends, of course during school lunch time we would roller skate in the gym. 1963= Bad year , I was in gym class that day when we got the word that JFK had been shot, I think you could have heard a needle drop that day. Staring the summer of 1964 I joined up with a MU stuiden, sorry I still can't spell, working for the US Gov. going around measuring tobacco fields, it was a good thing I ran track during gym class , cause in some of the places we went to you almost had to be a goat to get there. This took me through the summer of 66". Oh something I forgot , back in 1964 I joined the band directed by Mr Joe Avis, who I will never forget, he was great. After 1966 passed on and 1967 rolled around, and to avoid the draf I decided to follow in my fathers foot steps and join the Navy. He was in Pearl Harbor when the Japs came throu on December 7 1941. Of course some of the stuf my dad did I would never try, and no body could ever pay me enough to do it. And of course I didn't see as much war action as he did either. That is comming up later. 1967 Summer= Joined U S Navy, went thro basic in Great Lakes IL , came home to fine that my familey had moved to Huntington, now I am lost, so I call a old friend who lives in Huntington, and he has no problem with coming to get me and leting me stay for a few days. Found out that my friend was home on leave also , he had become a Jarhead, a Marine, I checked around and found that my younger brother joined the Army, and the rest of the familey moved to FL. Well I hung around for a few weeks with Scottie and his wife , then ship back up north to go a Navy school for about...Expand for more