Gary Spencer:  

Life omg...I just rejoined, and found emails from 2010 I didn't answer!! I'm sooo SORRY!! Now I can't figure out how to do it. Yikes! So many times I've paused in a situation or place, and felt awed that I was there. Some of the landmark things I've experienced are shared by most of us, like the birth of a child. I'm happy to report four grown children, all great friends and quality people. I will always strive to improve any small portion of the world I can touch, to leave it a little better for them (and you). My career was a roller coaster ride of experiences. It has shown me so much about people, both filling and emptying my heart at times in the process. It has encouraged me to stay healthy, and keep out of most trouble (except that which it delivered). It has helped me to see many amazing sunrises and beautiful starry nights I would have missed if I had chosen a different job. It has tasked me with both taking and saving lives, causing me to feel the deep sadness and elation both experiences bring. I've won awards, and survived ridicule, sometimes during the same time period. I've seen some celebrities and Politicians at their worst (don't ask, I'm like a Priest), and some "never will be anybodies" at their very best, showing superb courage and selflessness in extremely trying times. I've learned that we are all just people, mostly good, all flawed. I've seen the destructive power of nature, crawling into buildings it smashed into kindling, and had the windows in my car blown out by superheated air, escaping with embers burning the seat between my legs. I've negotiated multi-kilo drug deals, made and detonated truck bombs, breakfasted with a guy knowing he was wanted for a drug hit murder (which ended in a vicious fight). Some amusing highlights would be sneaking into Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1974 during the last Indian uprising in history (and soon getting arrested by the US Marshal's. I work under contract with them now. Go figure..), living with Ringo Starr as a body guard for 3 months just after John Lennon was killed (soon becoming sort of a nanny to his fiance's kids), and receiving personal thanks from Mr. Reagan after stopping a man known to be bent on assassinating him (when the ma...Expand for more