Joseph Valento:  

After graduation I bounced around from job to job trying to earn enough money to buy my first car. I worked at Remo manufacturing in No Ho until I nearly cut off one of my fingers while cutting steel hoops for drums. I moved up to moving inner office mail for Forest Lawn. Yes, it is true they sometimes arrive via the mail. At the beginning of the spring semester '66 I enrolled at Glendale College. My college career was short lived as Uncle Sam called and indicated that the "Marines were looking for a few good men." While in boot camp in San Diego, I learned that a very close personal friend who had taken me under his wing, had been killed during a fishing trip in Mexico. I will never forget his friendship, nor the friendship of m...Expand for more