Brenda Hale:  

Well let's see where to start. Those of you who know me, know how hard high school and life itself was for me. However, after high school I met and married a S/Sgt. Emery (Bud)Aliff, from Lockourn. We were married 21 days when he left for Viet Nam, and I went to live with his family in the south. Upon his return home we went to upstate N.Y. for 3 yrs, then to Andrews AFB in Maryland. We loved it here and upon his retirement from service we stayed. Bud went to work for Capitol Police in D.C. I always loved and championed animals, so I had a 30 year career working with them, (much better then people to work with). In the meantime, we adopted our son from Viet Nam, who will soon be 38, who has given me a wonderful daughter-in-law, and 2 really great, grandsons. My husband Bud, died from CHF and kidney failure in 2000. We had a wonderful life together. I still live in our home on 3 acres in southern Maryland near the Bay. Am in a new relationship, with a very rare jewel of a man who lost his wife around the same time. We met in grief counsiling of all places. I have traveled a bit, and belong to different animal rights groups. I belong to the Eastern Star an...Expand for more