Billy Mehaffey:  

Life This spans about forty years, so you may say I knew that, but the others might not. So bear with me. I start with when I left High school. Well I sort of won (lost) the draft lottery. #19 on my 19th birthday. Thanks to dick nixon who canceled out all new student deferments and 1A body, I was to be VC fodder. Well I beat the draft by joining the navy and seeing the world. Right, spent four years in Florida. Bootcamp in Orlando, was there for three months saw nothing. Jax for seven months nice big town except it can smell really bad sometimes. The rest was in Pensacola, except for a brief mission in the mid-east during the Yom Kipper war in 73. Came home started school on the GI bill and gave up. I was tired of eating pop-corn for dinner, so I got a job at the airport working on aircraft electrical components. Got married to Barbara, I met her in Navy. Saw aviation going to the dogs. Left there and worked at Motorola for two years. Saw that job looking kind of shaky, with most of the electronic job leaving for foreign countries. Was reading the paper when I saw two women had just passed the...Expand for more