Donald Personette:  

Life My life really began with WWll. That is when I began to work,first in the Ritz Theater as an usher, then in the Hudson and State theaters, and while still thirteen I worked as a bus boy and dishwasher in Wheelers restaurant. I entered the Merchant Marine at age sixteen and was involved in the return to the Phillipines with General MacArthur, in Oct.,1944, at Tacloban, on Leyte. After turning seventeen I enlisted in, and finished the war, in the Navy. I became a Gunners Mate aboard submarines (USS Sea Robin, SS407) and remained there until entering the Hospital Corps in 1949. I was assigned to the Marine Corps during the Korean war and landed with them at Inchon. After returning home I was assigned to stations in Newfoundland and Japan, and several schools and surface ships, including transports and an Aircraft Carrier, (USS Cabot,CVL28). I retired in 1964 and went to work at CDC in Atlanta as a Medical Technologist until again retiring in 1985. Since that time I have held various jobs in the field of medical technology and am now fully retired, and living in Conyers, Georgia. My wife still works for Health and Human Services in Atlanta and my son, Brian, (a UGA grad) works in the Georgia State Capital Building. I received an Associates Degree in science from Pensacola Junior College in Pensacola, Florida. I work around the house and tend to our two cats and two dogs who are more demanding than children could ever...Expand for more