Tony Chliek:  

Life After high school my father rescued me from a dead end job as a stock boy in the housewares department at the old Billy Blake's in Smithtown. He got me a job in his union with the local electric company, a LILCO sub contractor. I was drafted into the Army 5/68. Sent to Vietnam 10/68 to a little out of the way tropical paradise called Trang Bang, just out side of Cu Chi. I didn't stay very long, I was wounded a month later. I spent 3 months in various hospitals recovering before I wound up at Ft Meade MD. I worked in the data processing center there and became interested in computers. I didn't know it then, but that was the turning point in my life. I got out of the Army 5/70 and went back to work with the electric company. I met my future wife 8/70 at the OBI North in Smithtown (anyone remember the OBI?). We got married 7/72 and had one son Brian in 1982. I hated working outside winters, so I went to college 6/73 to learn computer programing, which was paid for by the VA (remember the turning point earlier?). I left college 3 years later, hated programming, and went to technical school to lear...Expand for more