Richard Presley:  

After working at odd jobs out of high school, I joined the Navy in order to find some direction and a career path. That made me see, first of all, that I needed to make permanent my relationship with Debbie Schuett. Eight years was a long time for her to wait but she did and I'm thankful. She had received her teaching degree and was teaching third grade in the Hemlock school system. My Navy career was challenging and took us to CA, TX, FL, and VA. Along the way I earned my commission and wings of gold as a Naval Aviator. Fun times. At the same time our family grew to six with the addition of three daughters and a son. Debbie was/is a great mom and I owe the fact we have four wonderful kids to her holding down the fort while I sailed the seas. Two of our girls married Marines, one is local, and our son recently married a young lady in the Navy so as you can imagine those three are scattered far and wide. As soon as we can we're going to schedule a trip to Hawaii to visit our son and daughter-in-law. I was never stationed in Hawaii. Ha! My last duty station was h...Expand for more