Don Curry:  

Life Well, thanks for taking time out to read this boring bio. Blah, blah, yada yada.... I never really looked back and reflected where I've been and the things I've experienced until I finally signed up on Classmates recently. I've been receiving emails for years from this website and never paid it any attention --- but i guess i've been getting nostalgic lately and decided that I wanted to reach out to my past....let me begin by saying that i attended a private school (Hawken School) in Gates Mills, Ohio from '82-'84, then spent my senior year at John F. Kennedy and eventually graduated in '85. After that, i attended Denision University in Granville, Ohio for one year (met some life-time friends here: Don Lafferty, Lorraine Herr, Todd Collis, Tim Wainwright, Missy Wagnon). At this time, i had no friggin' clue what i wanted to do. I guess we're all clueless when we're this young. Additionally, this private institution was draining my father's expenses, so i decided to ease his burden and enlist in the military in '87. This decision proved to be pivotal because it set me on a journey that would alter not only my life, but how I viewed things in the world, and basically made me the person I am today. So, i enlisted basically to "escape" from Cleveland with the mindset that I "wanted to see the world"....In the fall of '87, i arrived to my first duty station Ft. Ord, California where i bought my first car, "fell in and out of love" several times, and throughly enjoyed the scenery along the coast. My two closest friends at the time were Michael Bugg and "Tony" Griggs...i eventually ended up at the Defensive L...Expand for more