Donald Hanlon:  

I joined the U.S. Navy after high school and was stationed at the Naval Air Station in Washington, DC in 1960 when I met my wife, Bonnie. We married in 1961 and I was assigned sea duty aboard the USS Enterprise which participated in the Cuban Crisis in Oct-Dec 1962. While I was at sea my first child, Michael, was born. After receiving an honorable discharge in May 1963, we decided to remain in the DC area and I became a driver-salesman for Hostess Cakes from which I retired in 1996. We moved into a new home in Laurel, Maryland in 1965 and are still living in it today. In 1963 I became interested in numismatics and began a penny collection which has grown to broader interests in coins and I attend numerous coin shows on the eastern coast of the USA. We eventually got two daughters, Dawn and Starr, and another son, Steven. While they were growing up we spent two weeks each summer on a family camping trip and stayed in 32 states before the children decided they no longer wanted to be gypsies. :o) We then bough...Expand for more