John Morgan:  

After graduating from GHS, I worked at different jobs here and there and finally I got a job at US Steel in McDonald. In 1957 I finally got laid off. Frank Morano and I started a friendship that we have to this day. In 1958 we took his sister Josephine to UCLA in Calif to see if she wanted to go to schoool there and she said "no". While we were waiting for her, Frank and I walked into the AF Recruiting Office at Hollywood and Vine and signed up for the AF. We took Josephine back to Girard and waited a couple of weeks and flew back out to Los Angeles to join the AF. We couldn't get in immediately so we had to wait 2 weeks paid for by the US Government at the Hotel Alexandria in downtown LA with meals and rooms furnished. Then on 3 Nov 1958 we signed up and left for Lackland AFB, TX., for basic training and technical school. Frank got the measles while in school so he had to step back a week and I graduated and went to Orlando AFB, Fl for 5 years. Frank graduated and went to FE Warren AFB, WY. We were never stationed together. I then had assignments to Tucson, AZ, Phillipines, Vietnam, Penn State University and finally retiring at Langley AFB, VA 1 Jan 1980. While stationed at Penn St, I married my love Bonna and we have just celebrated our 42 year together. I have 1 step son, 2 step Grand Children and 3 step Great Grand Children. Upon ...Expand for more