Joe Anderson:
CLASS OF 1997
St. Mary's AcademyClass of 1997
Nauvoo, IL
Nauvoo - Colusa Junior High SchoolClass of 1997
Nauvoo, IL
Nauvoo-Colusa High SchoolClass of 1997
Nauvoo, IL
Joe's Story
Life
O.k. So I was never technically enrolled at SMA, but I was a permenent fixture there between '92 and '97, doing something like 16 plays under the direction of good old Bro. Bill by the time I graduated Nauvoo high school. Just a local kid with not much to do, you understand.
After I graduated in '97, I worked at a riverboat casino for about a year, drank inordinate amounts of Jack Daniels and generally just meandered around.
So, after realizing that I didn't know shit about anything, I decided that the military looked like a wise career path.
I joined the Navy in Feb. '99, studied electronics for a year in Chicago and Virginia and have been stationed onboard USS Carney, a guided missile destroyer based out of Jacksonville, Fl, for just over 2 years now.
I've been all over the Caribbean, up and ...Expand for more
down the east coast. I got to meet Adam Sandler on the set of his movie "Deeds" last year when we were in NYC and got a picture with him, my buddies and our garden gnome, David...
We're currently in Johnny Arab's neck of the woods in support of this Operation Enduring Freedom.
Yes. It's a weird job and I'm glad that I'm not married because we're gone for 7 or 8 months out of any given year. Christ, so many of these military marriages end in treachery, madness and doom....
Anyway, when we're actually in Jacksonville, I'll drive the guys around in my '78 Caddy and hit the local clubs. We work hard, we play hard, etc...
So, that's my story. I've been up to all manner of lunacy in the last 5 or 6 years but there's no time to go into it here. For now, I'm just trying to get out of the North Arabian Gulf...
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