Edward Miller:  

Life It's been a great 55 years, even with the bumps along the way! After graduating from the Air Force Academy in 1972, I spent 20 years in the Air Force in 20 countries. I was a combat engineer, graduate school professor, earned two Masters Degrees (no time for a PhD), worked with the DEA and NASA, ran an orphanage in South Korea (awarded President Pak Chung Hee's People to People Award), chaired a board for unwanted and abused children in Kentucky, earned a Second Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwan Do in the Korean National Gym in Seoul, flew airplanes, worked civic action teams for the poor in third world countries, taught engineering in foreign countries, built airfields worldwide, been in a lot of jungles, made a lot of friends, was on the DMZ when North Korea came across and killed several other officers in 1976, swam in the oceans off Crete and Azores, climbed a mountain in Indonesia, dove (scuba) the Micronesian Truk Lagoon and other locations, drove 180 MPH from Germany through France and Spain to Portugal, served as Ambassador on several foreign visits, served in the Engineering Command Post for Desert Storm, had dinner with Vice President Al and Tipper Gore (although I am Republican) and had a great four years in Hawaii. I also was a single Dad for 3 years with two of my oldest sons who are half Korean, met and married my wife of 35 years who is also an Air Force Veteran, had a third son, adopted a special needs daughter who is both a "challenge" and a "bles...Expand for more