Yvette Wilkinson:  

Hello everyone, my name is yvette (warren) wilkinson and I went to Selma Highschool from 1972-73 and 1973-74. My family was military there at the air force base and I rode a bus from the AF base to school that our parents paid for so we could attend. My first year at Selma Highschool I was very much in love with another military brat named Blake Lofton Donald and we rode together to school in his blue vw. We hung out together almost the entire day going to most of the same classes, driving home together and then meeting up again after school on the AF base. I was also friends with Gail miller whom I still stay in contact with and she works in the Selma hospital ER as an RN now. I was also friends with Lisa Tacconi but I haven't seen or heard from her since she left the college in Florence that we all three attended at the university of n. Alabama in Florence, al. After I graduated from Highschool I moved to Pensacola, Florida for the summer and worked and played there until my parents insisted I come back home because I was only 17 at the time. I started in the nursing program at the univ. of n. Alabama in the fall of 1974 and joined the sorority phi Mu and the drill team which performed at football half times. I didn't make it to graduation because I moved from there to Rhein mien Germany where my parents were stationed in 1975-76 and married my first husband there, the marriage only lasted for eight years but produced my first born son James Harold Mylott IV . We divorced in 1984 during the year I was in Lpn school for nursing. I graduated as an LPN , remarried to Allen r. Wilkinson whom I've been married to now for the past 28 years and we had two more sons. In aug. 3-1985 Stephen Allen wilkinson was born at the shaw AF base hospital. Jimmy had been born at the Tuomey hospital of Sumter, s.c. Because both husbands were stationed at shaw AF base at the times of our marriages. We were living in base housing at shaw AF base when I became pregnant for a third time when we received orders to move to Misawa, Japan where in feb. 17-1987 our third son Christopher Michael wilkinson was born at the Misawa a.f.b. hospital Japan. We had a wonderful five years there in Japan and I'd still be living there if they would have let me stay. I worked as a nurse in the Misawa a.f.b. hospital during our five years there and then we moved again in nov. 1991 to Goldsboro, n.c. To Seymour a.f.b. where I worked for awhile in their military hospital in the L&D department. My husband was being sent TDY to places all over the world from every base we were stationed at so there was a lot of times I was raising my son's alone. I believe it was during desert storm when we lived at Seymour Johnson a.f.b. that he was sent. We lived in base housing there also and you knew who's husbands were gone at the time by all the yellow ribbons on the houses and trees. From Seymour Johnson we moved to Belleville Illinois to Scott a.f.b. and it was there that we had our first home built. It was a beautiful two story home with a large backyard, and about 3,500 sq ft. Of living space including a full basement. We always enjoyed living in base housing but to be bake to move into your own first house was wonderful! We stayed at Seymour for about six years and during that time my husband earned his bachelors degree in computers that was paid in full by the a.f. Then we moved back to shaw a.f.b. in 2001 where my husband retired from the a.f. After earning his masters degree thanks again to the a.f. Generosity. My husband was offered a civil serv...Expand for more