Darwin Dempsey:  

Life Check it out . . . Life is pretty damn cool, so don't go wasting it sitting around in a gloomy funk. I love the world around me, and every minute I am lucky to be alive and thriving. A beautiful wife and amazing kids . . . What more could I have ever dreamed of? I never much cared for my given name, 'Darwin', and to be honest, almost no one these days calls me by that name . . . I got tagged with the nickname of 'Jack' years back when I first went into the Army. It stuck, and in my day-to-day dealings, no one these days calls me Darwin but my wife and my mom. That being said, if you know me as Darwin, call me that . . . I answer to just about anything. Just ask my wife. I still work in the military full-time. It's a living, and I eat well. But after 18 years of getting work done down in the dirt as an infantryman, five years ago I officially became a human resources manager. But since I do it in an infantry unit, I am still cool right? . . . Even if my knees are shot. I have been married since 1990 (to the same woman, no less). My...Expand for more