James Dejarnett:  

Life Transfered my Senior Year to Roswell New Mexico graduating at Roswell High School (NOT Goddard). I worked for Red Crow Drive Inns Inc. (in Roswell, Clovis, Albuquerque and Hobbs) until 1972. I joined the Navy in 1972 and was stationed as my military career dictated; allowing me to visit over 20 other countries. Married the mother of my children in 1976 while stationed on the USS Lexington. I retired from the Navy in 1995 and became single shortly afterwards. The house, kids and furniture stayed with me (should give you a hint). I worked as a correctional officer in the Texas Department Of Criminal Justice (Prison) in Beeville (where I met my second wife) and Kennedy Texas. I departed the prison system to drive a truck over the road (OTR). My timing was close. The escape of the Texas Seven from the Connally Unit in Kennedy Texas occured months after I resigned. The only one of those seven indiviuals that did not work for me while a coorectional officer was the leader. I did have daily conversations with him as he was one of the inmates that was in an administrative support position. I traveled a...Expand for more