Robert Ramirez:
CLASS OF 1967
Edinburg High SchoolClass of 1967
Edinburg, TX
Robert's Story
Robert is from Edinburg, Texas. He is married. His schools include Edinburg High School. He later attended The University of Texas at Austin (Did not register senior year Sept 1970), Pan American University (now part of UT System) (Spanish minor, English Literature). He works(ed) at Test Prep Seminars, Sharyland ISD, Irving ISD.
Music Robert likes includes Red Grammer, Rhymin Simon, The Daze. Books he likes include Enchanted Collar (Money Lessons for Kids), War and Peace, The Hidden Words. Movies he likes include Chariots of Fire, The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction. TV shows he likes include The Daily Show, CBS Sunday Morning, Nova+.
One of Robert's favorite quotes is:""The earth is but one country and mankind it's citizens." --Baha'u'llah (1817-1892)
"Bureaucracy is the death of any achievement." Albert Einstein".
More about Robert:"Born and raised in a small town and when until a few years ago, it wa possible to hang a "uwee" on main street right off the town square.
Uncle Joe Curiel gave me a bike at age 10, the town got smaller real fast. It was a blessing to grow up in a place and time where you didn't lock your doors or believe that strangers were inherently dangerous. Anywhere else outside the home was a...Expand for more
better place to be, and I went there regularly on my little blue one-speed.
When I was a high school junior, my thoughts included a vague notion of joining the Air Force and fighting the commmies in Vietnam. By the end of that summer, after reading "The Arrogance of Power," it was "hell no, I won't go." By the end of the first few weeks on campus at UT Austin, I learned a new use for a matchbox. But I never learned to roll my own with one hand.
And now the story. Japanese, Germans, Vietnamese and Americans now attend reunions at the site of bitter bloody battles where no one can remember what they fought for, other than a piece of ground and just to survive at the other dudes expense.
We lost brothers and friends and Edinburg is a poorer place because Nolan Simmons, Leonel Ryan and Freddie Gonzalez fell in that far off land.
I've got a wonderful wife, two super adult children, and a world-wide family comprised of members of the Baha'i Faith (6-7 million) plus another 6 billion (and counting) people from every culture and nation and all socio-economic classes.
I plan an extended trip---for the rest of my life---to visit these family members.
Please let me know what dates work for you.".
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