Charles Stonex:  

By the time graduation came around in 1970, I was already in the Mekong Delta area of Vietnam with Co D. 2nd Battalion, 47th Mechanized infantry of the 9th Infantry division. My "Then" picture is me on a 50 cal machine gun mounted on an APC. I was 18 when that was taken. I came home in April 1971 with a bad attitude, and good dose of Agent orange and an uncontrollable thirst for alcohol. It took me the next 20 plus years to figure our what my problem was. I have been sober since Jan 1990. I was divorced from my first wife, Carla Filby. I found our I could not stay sober and married at the same time. After trying many different careers and a few geographical changes I finally settled into home repair and restoration in Des Moines, Iowa and owned my own company called "Anytime Home Repair". After a fight with prostate cancer in 2007, and a couple of failed and documented relationships, I fina...Expand for more