Jim D. Miller:  

LIFE I never forget that I have known what it is like to have been well off financially, and I have known what it is like to be dirt poor. I have learned many important experiences connected to both! Happiness was not associated to being able to buy whatever I wanted but to appreciate what was entrusted to me to take care of as GOD has provided for it all. I have had what I have needed, not wanted in life. For that I have had an abundance to share with others less fortunate. I have never served in any military branch due to the changing of the draft from being drafted to being chosen by a lottery, to the volunteer enlisting. My draft papers were held up for 8 years in the post office and was told that with 3 children I didn't need to apply. I probably missed a lot of guidance and discipline by not having served. It was surly a different era back then. After graduation, I got married. Lived in North Dallas for 2 years and moved to Casa View for about a year and a half. We then bought a house in Mesquite in 1965 and had a family of three girls. We divorced after 16 years of marriage. 5 years later I remarried for a second time for 6 months and realized that times had changed and went back to the sin...Expand for more