Donald Ackley:  

I as born on April 23,1946 in Elma Washington my family lived in McCleary. My dad Lawrence Ackley was a log truck driver and delivered logs to White Star. My mother was a home maker. March of 1949 my dad was drawen for a homestead in Tulelake, California. He started builing our home but on March 28,1950 he was killed when his tractor tipped over and crushed him. Mom then rented the homestead and moved us to Wilson Kansas where she grew up. We lived there from 1952 -1958 then moved back to Tulelake finished grade school in Newell. I then went to Tulelake High School to the middle of my junior year. We then moved to McCleary Washington and finished high school in Elma. I then returned to Tulelake and went to work for the US Forest Service fighting fires and thinning trees and planting trees. I then was drafted into the Army in 1966 Trained as a door gunner at Fort Riley Kansas wher I then shattered my right arch. I was then sent to Korea they didn't have gun ships so they...Expand for more