Mark Smith-DuCre':  

Life OK, where do I start? I know most of you from Lincoln Elementary, McKinley Jr. High, Pasadena Lutheran, La Salle Hi, or Blair. Since I only attended my senior year, most of my school memories are pretty imbedded in my psyche and they were all good memories, especially those with my closest friends. So after 2 years at Mt. Lowe Military Academy in Altadena and La Salle, here I am, at what I think was the coolest of the high schools at that time, the others were bigger, but I felt we had better spirit. And since all the girls my age had been attached since freshman year, it was a little difficult to find the perfect girl for me but I tried. So on my 18th I joined the CAL ARNG under Mr.(LTC) Thurman (VP) before graduation. Went to training at Ft. Ord. Then went to the regular Army, and was assigned to Army's Presidential Honor Guard during the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations. I stupidly got married in '77, we had 2 kids (Best thing to happen in my life), Kristal & Timothy, got divorced 17 years too late(DUMBER). Moved to Vegas in '95, remarried in '98 to my wife Lorraine and added her son, (Josh-now 19yo), to the ranks and no...Expand for more