Kathy - Lucas Benfield:  

Life Hi All, Not that anyone is interested, but Bridgette Lott, Dale Guess and I went through Jr & Sr High together. We were all three poor and didn't fit into any of the elite cirlcles or clicks, but we didn't care because we were loving life! We Three that cruised all of the krystal and other fast food drive-in's dinking coffee, riding main street and flirting, but never straying from our upbringing. Bridgette and I shared an apartment after gradaution while Jimmy was in Nam and I worked at Prudential as dictaphone operators for a year. She married a guy in the Navy, I "Dear John'ed' Jimmy, and did the same - huge mistake; Dale wrote to Jim in Nam and helped salvage my relatinship. He came home from Nam and married me. We moved to MD after he returned from Nam, but he was too traumatized from the war to be around people, and I didn't feel like I deserved a pretty wedding, so we went to the justice of the peace in Greensboro, NC. A year and a half later, we had fraternal little boy and girls twins that would have survived today, but technology just wasn't up to par, so our pecous little girl lived only one day, while little Jimmy made it two. We buried them at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, DC. I craweled into a whole for two years and wanted to crawl into their caskets with them and die, but God wouldn't let me go. No one one hire a Nam vet after the war, so Jimmy re-enlisted and off to Germany we went. It was the best time in our lives, I got pregnant with my second daughter, and we traveled all over Germany; it was great, romatic and a three-year honeymoon like nothing that I had ever dreamed of. We knew we wanted another precious baby as the experience was a miracle that we couldn't wait to embrace again; little Richard was born 13 months later in the same Nuremburg, Germany, Army hospital that Wendy was born in. We lived on the economy and rented basement apartments from the Germans for a couple of ears, learned street German and their wonderful holiday customs; we later moved into military housing, and traveled all over Germany, Switzerland and Austria. We came back to the US for two years to Augusta, GA, (which we loved and so did the children), then back to German for another two year unaccompanied tour which meant that he was never there; he was gone fo months at a time in school after school and out in the field playing war games. I had both babies, lived on the economy, had no car, little money, and life was pretty tough. The were preparing him for Officers' Candidated School to be a Warrant Officer, but I was young and foolish, and all I wanted was my husband home with my children and me. Huge mistake!!! He got out in '83 four years short of retirement because they sent us ...Expand for more