Paul Lane:  

If you're like me it's hard to remember people without hanging memories onto something - PLEASE provide enough story info. so we can remember YOU, not just your name! Nerdy kid in HS (chess club): Freshman - played football (tackle) and wrestled. I was on the freshman (C) team - WE NEVER HAD A SINGLE POINT SCORED AGAINST US - a perfect defensive season! (49ers never did that!) Sophomore - got a jog (busboy - spent 17 years in food service: busboy to cook to chef to baker to kitchen manager to restaurant manager) Junior and Senior - started hanging with non-academics and found them to be just as smart as nerds - what a shock! Boycotted graduation as unimportant. 1 semester in college - more boring than high school; draft number was called so I enlisted in Navy before I got drafted. Saw Vietnam from the sea. (I was a Machinist Mate on the destroyer DD869 Arnold J Isbel (Dissy Issy). it was built in 1945 and sold to the Turkish Navy in 1973 (just in time to invade Cypress). I was on it fro...Expand for more