James Hunt:  

After MHS I attended DBJC and worked part time for Southern Bell. Not too long after that, I was then hired as a full time employee. When the Selective Service changed their method to the lottery system, I was #47 out of 365 on their list so I enlisted in the Coast Guard. After boot camp I was then sent to Yorktown, Va for Engineman School, then on to the north island of Hokkaido, Japan for a year on a LORAN station. Turns out that it was great duty. When I returned to the states, I was then stationed in Cape May, NJ and did Search and Rescue duty for the remainder of my enlistment. I met my wife Nancy while I was in NJ as a blind date. She was on vacation with a friend of hers just before she went home to Pittsburgh, Pa to begin Nursing School. We have been married now for 42 1/2 years and I'm the one to be blessed by it! After my discharge from the Coast Guard, I returned to Southern Bell and was then sent to Pensacola due to the economic downturn at that time. Pensacola was a great town to live in: had many dear friends there and the people I worked for were great. After 8 years there, we then moved to Orlando which turned out to be a mistake, and then back home to the Daytona district in 1991 where I finished my career with Southern Bell/BellSouth/AT&T. I retired at 62 in March of 2012 with 43 years of service. I've always loved to fly as an aviation buff, so I volunteered with an organization called History Flight. We flew a 1943 B-25 and several other aircraft in which we sold flights to the public. The funds then went to help find the remains of our service men at the island of Tarawa. Just after my retirement, we flew the B-25 to Urbana, Ohio for the 70th Doolittle reunion. I had the honor of ...Expand for more