Wallace (Wally) Wildenradt:  

Unlike Joanne who was inspired by a friend to write a story, I was threatened by a little lady in baggy pajamas with calloused hands and feet, an ear piercing screech and a black belt. Who might that be you ask, I ain't tellin'. Suffice it to say.....fear made me do it. An only child born in Daytona Beach, FL the family moved to NY when I was five due to a job transfer. Hence, my book learnin' happened at PS 151, JHS 10 and Bryant. We lived across the street from Bryant on 48th between Broadway and Northern Blvd. After high school, I worked for Union Carbide on Park Ave. in the city and the New York Worlds Fair in Flushing. Like thousands of young men who turned 21 in 1965, I was drafted into the Army spending two years to the day. Upon discharge, moving back to Florida in 1967, I worked at various jobs and finished college using the GI bill. Went right to work after graduation as a veteran's counselor and speech teacher at a community college. Five years later federal funding ran out for the counseling position and I was laid off, only to go to work one week later at the Kennedy Space Center in FL. That was a very enjoyable and rewarding career spanning 32 years and culminating in r...Expand for more