DON NOLAN:  

OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL, 1967 WORKED AT LAMB WESTON CONNELL PLANT BEFORE IT WAS LAMB WESTON. WENT LOGGING NEAR FORKS, WASHINGTON STATE, DOING WHATEVER THE FOREMAN TELLS YOU AS YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE JOB. A FEW MONTHS LATER WENT TO WORK IN A SHAKE MILL. MY FIRST DUTY WAS TO CLEAN UP THE SAWDUST FROM UNDER ALL THE MACHINES AND TO DO WHATEVER ELSE I WAS TOLD TO DO. WENT BACK TO CONNELL TO WORK AT LAMB WESTON AS A PACKAGING MACHINE OPERATOR. I RECEIVED MY DRAFT NOTICE FROM UNCLE SAM AND HAD TO REPORT IN FEBRUARY 1969. I WENT TO FORT LEWIS FOR BASIC TRAINING, FORT SILL,OK, FOR ADVANCED TRAINING IN ARTILLARY. I WAS STATIONED AT FORT SILL THE NEXT 6 MONTHS OR SO AS MY OLDER BROTHER, DICK, WAS A DOOR GUNNER IN RVN ALREADY. I GOT ORDERS FOR VIETNAM AROUND FEBRUARY 1970, AND GOT OUT OF THE SERVICE IN JANUARY 1971. I RETURNED TO MY JOB AT LAMB WESTON. I STARTED CBC COMPUTERS PROGRAM AND WORKING GRAVEYARD. I LASTED THAT SCHOOL YEAR AND WAS BURNT OUT. I TOOK THE SUMMER SHUT DONE OFF AND BEFORE START UP I GOT A JOB WITH BNRR AS A CLERK AT THE PASCO HUMP YARD. THE FALL OF 1973 I STARTED THE CBC AUTO BODY CLASS AND WORKED ON CALL AS AN EXTRA BOARD CLERK, DUE TO 60 JOBS BEING CUT, AT BN FREIGHT DOCK. THE WORK AT BN WAS SLOW SO I WENT TO WORK AT THE AUTOMOTIVE PAINT STORE, M...Expand for more