Dennis Sykes:  

My wife, Roberta, and I live in a community called Bell Mountain Ranch in Castle Rock, Colorado. We are both retired now. When I sold my home in Littleton, Colorado recently to move to Bell Mountain Ranch one of my neighbors from the old neighborhood said kiddingly; "oh your going out to pasture" ! Anyway Roberta and I are proud of our children and grandchildren. My daughter by a previous marriage lives in San Carlos, California where her husband, Evan, works for Google. My daughter, now a housewife with two beautiful children, has her B.S. in Business from Colorado University and Masters and PhD degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in Communication, Planning and Information Design. Roberta youngest son, also by a previous marriage, just graduated with his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University and is moving to Lyon, France next month. Roberta's son Michael lives in Tokyo with his new wife, Mariko, and child and works for Tokyo University in computer science. We attended their traditional Shinto wedding ceremony in Tokyo last summer. Roberta's daughter and son-in-law lives here in Parker, Colorado with their two beautiful children. Her daughter also has an advanced degree a Masters degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology. So they are all working and that's a good thing! Briefly, after I graduated from our alma mater, I attended Gannon University for two years where my academic success was, well, let's say, horrific. So in June 1967 I enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corp...Expand for more