Steve Burden:  

Greetings and Salutations!!! What would others say about me if they knew me? Walked in my shoes? Saw through my eyes? What would they write here for an others to know, to remember, to ponder upon? Here goes, I hope I have some tangible way of expressing some of the views that have been shared with me by others. My name is Steve Burden. I was saved at the age of seven and remained true to the LORD all my life sometimes to my own detriment by not fitting in. I am married for thirteen years now working on fourteen. We have two beautiful children, a daughter age 6 going on thirteen and a son age 13 months. I was married before for almost fifteen years while I was in law enforcement and we have four children which are all adults now. I have three older young men and a young lady. Three are married and there are seven grandchildren with two of them. Two more grandchildren are on the way with one of those and one of the other young men. My oldest is the Senior Pastor of the same Church I once served in as a Deacon before the marriage ended very poorly. I am a former Eagle Scout, a former decorated United State Marine and after training as a MOS 2814 electronic tech I went Recon and achieved first Parachutist status then went Aquatic. I became a Deputy Sheriff in Ohio and served several times with several departments and as a Police Officer. My last fifteen years were spent as a K-9 Officer/Deputy and later a Master K-9 Handler. I served on tactical units as I am a skilled marksman/sniper. I am now retired from law enforcement. But while serving in law enforcement I cross trained myself as a firefighter and obtained permanent TNI status, today they call this level 3 Firefighter. I first trained as an EMT-A and later as a Paramedic. I served fifteen years as a volunteer Firefighter/Paramedic. I achieved voluminous awards of all kinds of magnitude over my years. I opened, bought in or operated several businesses along the years and became a self made millionaire (on paper versus cash, which came later) before age 30. I was asked to write an autobiography before the age of 33, I declined, stating, ¿I did not believe that I actually had anything worthwhile to share yet¿. After being out of formal schooling, not including training or technical schools, I returned to the same University I began a degree at, some thirty years earlier. I not only earned my B.A. I also returned to SCUBA and am an Advanced SCUBA Instructor. I am certified to teach most all of the American Red Cross training, both on land and in the water. I additionally returned to training in the arts and am a traditional martial arts Instructor and teach Shogen-Ryu Karate-Do. I teach different self defense courses around the area based upon request...Expand for more