William Rooney:  

Life Hi Folks, I last saw some of you at the 20th reunion but most I have not seen since I moved to Vermont in 1980. I went to tech school for electronics and was hired by IBM right before graduating tech school. I work as a semi-conductor manufacturing equipment specialist. Although I have never married, I had a daughter, Megan, in 86. She is now 20 and going to college. I was engaged for a while with another woman for almost 8 years, but that ended in 1998. In VT I lived in a nice 4 bedroom colonial home on 4.6 acres of land with a pool, woods in the back with deer, fox and other animals. I was a first lieutenant on the Town of Georgia Volunteer Fire Department and an EMT-B on the rescue squad. It was a beautiful place to live, but life changes. On September 14, 2001 I joined up with my brother, a member of the NYCPD, as a volunteer at ground zero, WTC. I was there for a couple of weeks for the rescue portion and into the recovery portion. I returned home and 2 months later, right after Thanksgiving, I was laid off after almost 22 years of se...Expand for more