Richard Green:  

I started my 2nd family in 2003 and this picture is me, of course, and my twin girls, Cameron and Chloe. They were born in '03. I retired from San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in San Clemente in 2005 so I could raise them while my wife, Lisa, pursued her career as a surgical nurse. I was a superviser at SONGS from 1991 until I retired. Prior to that I worked for SCE as a whse spvsr in Rialto as well as a line crew grunt in Redlands, San Bernardino, and Ontario. I'm working backwards now to 1980 when my 2nd wife and our 3 children moved from a dairy farm in Sun Prairie, Wis back to southern California. I'd been farming my own place since 1973 when Melinda came from Hawaii (we'd met in Balboa in 1970) to marry me in 1974. At that time Melinda had a son and I had a daughter. By 1976 we had another daughter. I worked harder than I should have at farming and nearly lost my family. Changing occupations meant I could keep them for awhile longer. (...been married 4 times) After high school (I'm 1967 grad) I bounced around a little, went to S.F. to visit my sister and help get COs to Canada and then married too young and started climbing...Expand for more