Judy Bowyer Martin:  

Life It's time for Classmates to add Prius/hybrid to the kinds of vehicles we drive ~ and they still don't include options like word-math, Sudoku, and grave-hunting for entertainment; favorite outdoor activities while listening to favorite MP3 music mix, which for me is CivilWar/Nostalgia/EarthwormJim...which makes those who know me think I'm quirky-but-in-awesome-shape for a greatgramma...I just got 2 TRIKKEs! For being one of the oddballs who never planned a life, I've ironically had a very full one; and, altho' there are still a few people who think I'm dead because a sister-in-law with my same name died in 1976, I DO enjoy hanging out with dead people and am currently into helping organize an historic cemetery in which Editor/Sen/Gov Edmund Ross who is credited with casting the deciding vote to find Andrew Johnson not guilty on impeachment charges...BTW, that reminds that I personally dislike A. Lincoln for his treatment of the regular army during the Civil War and stood in front of his *bigness* on the Mall in D.C. to tell him so out loud ~ :-Þ ~ ...is buried. I consider my lifework to be the mommy/gramma of six kids spread over twenty years and eleven grandbabies ~ currently teaching my 8&6-year-old granddaughters to embroider so that the art doesn't fall into oblivion ~ who somehow fell into being a freelance editor and computer connection between military writer/commentator/most decorated living vet until his death in 2005 from Agent Blue exposure in Vietnam, David Hackworth, and American patriots of all statuses. This is how I finally became intimate with details of the Vietnam War, which I could not keep up on coincidentally with having my first four children. We were expecting my 5th child, Cameron, at our 20-year reunion. He is named half for our classmate, Jim Cameron, who was the only person I knew killed in Nam ~ the other half being the Martins are part of ScotClan Cameron. Our friends think it's odd that we...Expand for more