Robert O'Brien:  

I rarely spoke to anyone in high school. A few people. Tim Mahoney, Pete Wright, Pete Murphy, Tom Lombardi, Jesus Castenada, Paul Noonan. My mother passed away suddenly in '71 when I lived in Bethpage. My father moved he and I to Bellmore for the start of 8th grade. He then married a woman from Levittown and we moved there for the start of 9th grade at DAHS. A lot of changes to go through for someone as young as I was. I was just starting to readjust to life without my mother and had made a couple of good friends in Bellmore. I was very angry at my father for moving us again. This time to Levittown. I did make very good friends with about seven guys from the class of '78 who lived near me on Albatross Rd. Ray Martinez, Tom McDonald, Brian Bernhard, Mike Lawrence, Mike Grimes, and Scott Henderson. I didn't care that they were a year younger than me . We are still friends to this day. I wish I could go back in time and redo my whole high school experience. I was painfully shy, extremely introverted, and very angry. I now know the Lord Jesus as my personal Savior. I became a born again Christian while I was a Security Policeman in the U.S.A.F. in 1980. The Lord completely changed my life. I have been married only once to the same woman since 1988 who I met at my church I attended back then in Valley Stream. We have a son, 24, and a daughter, 20. I moved from NY in 1993 to Whidbey Island in Washington state. My wife's brother was a Navy Pilot stationed at Whidbey NAS which is how we ended up out there. I was a carpet ins...Expand for more