Chuck Coward:  

Life Now, life has been a zigzag journey: Started off in Tennessee, went to college in KY and then in Tennessee, dropped out to join the military (Air Force), married, had 4 kids, learned Russian and traveled all over (Mostly to Europe and the Mideast-Persian Gulf), got out after Desert Storm spent a few years back in Knoxville working with family business, divorced, dad died, moved to Canada, left Canada after a year, moved to Florida in 2000 and lived on a sailboat in Jacksonville/St. Augustine for over two years, remarried and voila, am living in Tampa. School I'm not one to live in the past, but will wax the nostalgia every now and then...hence I'm on here. School was a place where I started figuring things out...not that I have all the answers, but I at least know where to look now. I've only run into a few old acquaintances since high school. Never made it to any reunions...the weekend we held our ten year reunion, I was sitting on alert (and that monday left for Saudi Arabia) for the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. College I was obsessed with travel and moving on and didn't take college seriuosly...do I regret that now. Nope. I wouldn't be where I am today if I'd not been on the channel I'd just cruised down. Am I better off for the partying I did back then, the friends I hung out with, the classes I cut, or the infatuations I endured? Sure...but hindsight 20/20, I should have saved my tuition and got in on the ground floor of Microsoft with that money...talk about a hefty return...sheesh. Military Went into the Air Force in 83, was to become a Russian Linguist, met my 1st wife (she was also to be a linguist), married and we were to have a child. Morning sickness kept her from Russian classes, and she was in jeopardy of washing out...which meant being stationed in different parts of the world. So, as she was washing out, I threw it...so that we could ...Expand for more