Michael Broili:  

Hi all, My short story. We moved to Port Orford in 1946. My folks, Les and Tony, bought around 10 acres on Garrison Lake road, 5 acres of which they planted in cranberries. I started 1st grade in the old two story wood school house that was located on 11th Street, where the playground is now. Sixes kids joined us the next year in the new schoolhouse that is now Driftwood Elementary. My brother Chris was born in Bandon in 1948 and my sister Leonora 3 years later in 1951. My father built and ran a small sawmill on Cape Blanco Road. He was killed rigging a spar tree in 1953. My mother became the cook at the grade school to support us until she remarried Johnny Walker a couple of years later. My half brother Paul was born in 1955. We sold the Garrison lake property and moved to my stepfathers motel in Denmark between Sixes and Langlois. My sophomore year I attended Pacific High's first year of existence. It was the first year they combined Langlois and Port Orford high schools into a single school. I did not actually graduate with the rest of you. In my junior year I was sent to Hill Military Academy in Portland due to my mothers concern that I needed more structure than I was getting in public school. My junior year was my last year of formal schooling. I left home in the summer of 1959 and never finished high school. I joined the Navy in October of 1961, got my GED high school diploma and went to Viet Nam. My mother died of cancer in December of 1961 and my s...Expand for more