Leon Burchett, Jr.:  

The first question got me, "HOW WILL YOU CLASSMATES REMEMBER YOU?" My first thought was, Do I really want to know? Yes I do and No I don't. A lot can change in 37 years,especially people and I like to think I am one who has changed, for the better and looking back I am so glad I have. My wife recently made a very powerful, but simple and profound statement. "Seems like it's backwards,We have been given the wisdom in our older age we really needed in our younger years" So to bring you up to date: I left Hopewell in May of 1974, probably to keep from ending up dead or in prison. I moved back to Danville, Va where I was originally from . On July 4th, 1983 I was involved in a motorcycle accident that left me burned over 33% of my body and spent the next 2 and 1/2 years, in and out of North Carolina Memorial Hospital at Chapel Hill, Burn Center for reconstructive surgery. I never attended college so I took the course of working where I could. After High School there was the Navy. Allied Chemical, Dan River Mills, Hardees's, back to Dan River Mills, and then to Burlington Industries. In 1993 my life took a drastic 360 degree turn, I felt impressed to enter the Ministry. So to bring you up to date I am still in the Ministry, what a change. I have been the Senior ...Expand for more