Jerry Wilson:  

CLASS OF 1964
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Commerce city, CO

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Life A week to the day after we graduated, Garry (my twin brother) and I got on the train for Ft. Leonardwood, MO and basic training. After basic I went to Ft. Gordon GA. I signed up for the Army Security Agency. After my training, I was sent to "Asmara, Ethiopia"! When they told me where I was going I still had no idea where I was going. Ethiopia holds tons of history. I did my best to see as much of the country as I could. This meant riding a bicycle close to 150 Kilometers or 93 miles to the Red Sea. FUN! (I nearly died on that little jaunt) I returned to the states after a couple of years and was assigned to the National Security Agency, where I spent a bit over eight months. Then to Ft. Carson, CO. It was during this assignment that I met and married my lovely wife Sandy. We both knew from the first date that we would be married. And married we were, eight weeks later. A year later the Army said they hadn't issued me a wife, so off to Sinop, Turkey (for a year), I did go! I saw quite a bit of Turkey while on courier duty. My next assignment was FT. Hood, Texas. While there we were blessed with our first baby, Denise. Then it was off to Tehran, Iran and the American Consulate. We traveled some but traveling at that time wasn't very condusive to our health! While we were there we had our second baby, Daniel. I then requested Okinawa. There was tons of things to do on Oki if you looked for them. Okinawa saw our third child Michael. Then we went back to Ft. Hood, TX. We were there almost two years and I got the grand idea that it was time to see Germany. Germany is by far the best place I have EVER been. The country is beautiful year round, the people are fantastic, warm and delightful. and the beer is GREAT. Again we were assigned to Ft. Hood TX,. Upon retirement a good friend made me an offer, he would be the money man if I wanted to open a one hour film processing lab. At the end of two years the lab was making money. We wanted to be with family for a change and they were in Billings MT. So off we went. No jobs or anything waiting for us. We were in Billings for ten years. Eventually, I got a job as manager of a larger Case Equipment warehouse. I fell from 15 feet and landed on my back, blowing out three discs. I had six surgeries on my back within two years. I ended up with a couple pounds of metal in my back (meaning steel rods, While I was recuperating from the last surgery, Sandy was offered the opportunity to purchase a Tupperware franchise in Kennewick, WA. We came over, bought the franchise and we have been here nearly nine years. Just prior to leaving Billings, we started foster parenting. The last bunch of kids were three young girls. Ages 6, 5 and 7 months. We didn't plan on taking them but a social worker convinced us. We took them with us to Florida, twice, when we were there for a conference. About two months after our last visit to Florida, I came down with Viral Encephalitis.I fought hard enough that I came back with only about a 5% brain damage. ...Expand for more
About two years after that little episode, my wife and kids were returning to our car one night after our oldest girls basket ball game and it was extremely dark. My wife went on to get the car and I was to meet her at the curb. As I got to the end of the gymnasium, I saw our car and turned to walk towards it. I took about five steps and my toes dug into a cement curbing and over I went, head first. I'd fallen before and kinda knew how far I had to go before I hit bottom. This time I kept falling and falling! I'd tripped and fallen into a truck loading pit! I tried to shake it off and get up but that wasn't going to happen. They rushed me to the hospital where they had to remove my spleen and I'd also broken a few ribs. But that was the better part of that problem. The admitting physician felt that I didn't need all of the medications that I was on and took me off of every last one. The next evening I went into an uncontrolable withdrawl and it ended up taking three orderlys and two security guards to get me into bed and tie me down. The doctor had them put me into a drug induced coma until the withdrawl period was over. Little did he know what he had done! I didn't come out of the coma for two weeks after they quit giving me the coma inducing medicine! My wife told me that the hospital and the doctor were quite worried, as well they should be! I came around and got back on my medications and everything got back to normal, or as normal as there is. We had already adopted the girls, so now I was really Mr. Mom as much as I could be. But the girls were growing fast and it wasn't long that hormones started running rappid in the two oldest girls and that was the start of the worst years of our lives together. The girls started sneaking out, running away, getting involved with alchohol and the dread of all parents, they started messing around with drugs. Washington's law's SUCK when it comes to juviniles. Parents have little to no rights when it comes to their children! I can't remember all of the problems that we had with the laws concerning the girls, so all I'm going to say is, if your reading this from in Washington State and have children that are starting to have problems with alchohol or drugs, move away and do it fast! We did but it was too late! After fighting the system, again, for nearly two years, we were able to move back to Billings MT. We chose to make the move, because, as I said, we had to get the girls out of that situation and we felt that Billings would be a good place for them to get a new start at adulthood. Two weeks after the girls were in school, the younger of the two was caught selling some of the oxicodone that she had stollen from me. The Billings school district has a no Now I am puttering around the house. Thats is about the end of my bio. I hope I have given you some idea of how my life has gone since we graduated. If you have any questions about any of the places I have been or you just want to say high, please don't hesitate to drop me a line.
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