Michael Born:  

After completing High School I was asked to leave home. So I joined the Navy, figuring with a war going on, I would be quite safe 20 miles out at sea. My first duty station was in a helicopter squadron in Imperial Beach, CA. After 2 years of undetected crimes (and nobody really knowing exactly where I belonged) they asked me to leave. I was sent off to Cam Rhan Bay in Vietnam (SO MUCH FOR BEING SAFE). After a year of putting on parties, importing beer, and other enterprising activities, I was asked to leave. (They even gave me an honorable discharge and a bunch of metals just to get me to not re-enlist) After a brief encounter of the first kind with marriage and 2 boys, I was TOLD to leave. I re-enlisted in the Naval Reserves and was stationed in a photographic unit at Point Magu CA. After 2 years they asked me to leave. During that time I was going to Pierce College where I met my present wife. We have 1 girl and between all the kids 9 grandchildren. My wife repeately asked me to leave but when that didnt work has tried to do me in with her cooking for 34 years now but because of all the junk I've eaten in my life my stomach is immune to all that she could dish out at me. I just won't go. I finished college and got promoted to Management (photography etc ) at a large retail...Expand for more