David E. Kardes:  

Life Left Syracuse after graduation, which now seems like an eternity ago, and enlisted in the military. Those days there was no lottery if you weren't going to college (hey, that was me) the military always welcomed you arms wide open. After four years in the military, during which the last two I was dating a beautiful girl who attended Old Dominion University, I decided to pursue this education thing and enrolled at Old Dominion University (the Harvard of the South...ha, ha). Old Dominion coincidentally was about 15 minutes from Virginia Beach (can you say beach parties, surfing and tanning being part of the curriculum). After my freshman year in 1974, I married the girl that I had been dating (Steacey). During those five wonderful college years, I worked part-time for United Airlines at the Norfolk International Airport. After graduation (1977), I was promoted to United Airlines Corporate Headquarters in Chicago. Trust me, life on Lake Michigan was not comparable to life on the Atlantic Ocean in Virginia Beach. In 1978, Steacey, and I, had our first child a son whom she named David Jr.(her idea). After four miserable, cold, snowy and windy years (kinda sounds like Syracuse), we sold the house, I quit my job (and wow, those flight benefits had been great)and moved back to Virginia to attend graduate school. After two years, I graduated with a MBA - Finance). I then accepted a finance position with "Sperry" which after it's merger with Burroughs became Unisys Corporation. In 1987, we had our second child, a beautiful little girl whom we named Krystina (this one was my idea). Krystina obtained her Massage Therapist certification in 2007, then decided she would rather...Expand for more