Steve Duvall:  

Here is hoping that 2016 will be a better year for all and that this finds everyone is doing great. In the last 8 years I have had some serious health issues which I'm happy to say that I have overcome all but one. I have had Colon Cancer which I can say that I'm cancer free right now. I have had 5 heart attacks, 3 strokes, pneumonia and due to being in a Coma for 3 1/2 weeks after my first heart attack I had tubes shoved down my throat, and as a result I now live with a TRAC so that I can breathe due to the scar tissues and damage done to my vocal cords. This last September I had a toe amputated due to the Agent Orange, currently fighting to save my same foot. I'm divorced after 32 years, I'm still trying to adjust and enjoy life but I do miss having a companion/best friend/spouse/ lover, but all that can be replaced while the years invested in such a relationship cannot. I'm still trying to figure out what to do next and where to start life again. During this ordeal I decided to retire after putting in more that 32 years with the Federal Government. My venture with the government included 5 years with the Justice Department prior to changing over to the Dept of Defense which I put in another 27 years with. I have worked on NASA programs such as the Hubble Telescope and I was in charge of 3 Star Wars programs at Lockheed Martin in Denver. When I retired I was the local program manager working on a Weather Satellit...Expand for more