Ken Fulkerson:  

UPDATE 6-8-2011 - WELL ALL IS OK. RETIRED NOW AND ON DISABILITY DUE TO KIDNEY XPLANT, ELSE GOOD AS I'M GONNA BE . Hoping to see as many schoolmates before it's over here. Life is a miracle itself, enjoy every bit of it, and share ti with others. HISTORY -Work My job: It is often very demanding yet exciting. Has constant up's and down's. It is rewarding and has new challenges each moment. It requires constant attention to old and new technologies. I build, install, modernize and repair elevators, residential and commercial for the most, but anything electronics motion controlled, but especially control interfacing, I find much enjoyment in since (thanks to Mr. Bertini) electronics also became a hobby. ..Retiring this year 2009.. -Pleasure There are lots of things that bring us pleasure but what I like best can be summed up easily. My most enjoyed moments is just observing, sharing and giving. The creation; the earth, plants, animals, the insects, micro-organisms and the awesome celestial heavens in particular are just wonderful without the noise and pollution from man. One cannot help but see that the life just teaming around us testifies to a Grand Maker, a Creator that cares for what he made and gives us purpose, life, hope, and future. I learned his name is Jehovah. Contrast this with what man has provided or has intentions of. Pleasure comes the positive things you make with the circumstances at hand. -Military Dick Winters and I joined together (the buddy team. )The Navy offered me extended education and background of Electronics, Radio & Navigation Systems, Liquid Nitrogen & oxygen, Politics, and exposure to the injustices of man-dominating-man. It's a fast way to grow up, but not really a good way to make that jump. -Food My opinion is: If man makes it Don't eat it.. It seems that man-made things are making everyone sick. -Memories I'll never forget being thrown out of a car on the freeway at 3yr. I'll never forget the merry-go-round that ripped my head open when I stood up from the ground at 6yrs. I'll Never forget the garden hoe that plunged into the back of my head at 7yrs. I'll never forget the guns and chains that emerged after the Cap & Sequoia football game. I'll never forget many dear friends and the many that did not get to make it this far in our great adventure of life. * Okay, I'll probably forget a whole bunch, but NOT in my heart. --------------------------------------- -Wildest thing done in school? Probably when I found this fresh dead RAT and stuck it in a bathing cap in an unknown locker. Yep! there were screams. And, then there was Mr. Fiebig taking firm hold of me by the traps, ow! Bad boy me... OK!, I thought a lot of us used to jump the swimming pool fence at night and go swimming. Oh yea! not an easy wall to get back out of. ------------------------------------ HERO? -Never had a Hero. Could have been my dad had she not divorced when I was 3yr. My step dad was not acceptable to me when I was young, so he constantly became mean to us. The outcome is I came from a strange dis-functional, very unaffectionate, family. I guess this might be a reason I developed a love for everybody I got to meet. People to me were friendly making it easy draw close. Never did I have a dis-like for someone else. Even when they put a knife in my back in the 7th grade because I was the new kid in the neighborhood. I never backed down to a bully. I did refrain myself hanging with some not-so-nice attitudes. I had my own to deal with and I wasn't proud of it. WOW!, how did I come to be such a sentimental, over-sensitive, goofy, caring, loving, simple guy? From classmates. They learned similar feelings or came by them from good loving families, and I got to be around many wonderful people with good characteristics. But especially in years to come, the learning came via my wife Donna. She from Terra Nova 1966. Hard worker, honest, caring, and good values. Her relatives (Spanish decent) were just so loving, caring and hospitable. I melted. ----------------------------------- Marriage (1969): What I always wanted the most, was a family that worked together cooperatively, trustingly, crying & laughing and enjoying life as a whole. After 5 years of marriage and on the brink of a divorce, I came to witness the very best of family relationships. This was while I was on a hunting trip in Alaska. I asked the family head how could I obtain his type of family relationship. I was told that when I got home, go study the Bible with Jehovah's Witnesses. What the heck, I wanted what they had as a family. So, as a last ditch effort to preserve a marriage where we both really loved each other but couldn't stand each other, I called and asked my Donna if this...Expand for more