David Powell:  

Life When I left High School I went in the Coast Guard. Two and half years on an icebreaker and year and a half on search and rescue. It was not a bad as it may sound. The winter on the icebreaker was a bit rough and could get pretty cold. The summers though we would escort the yacht races from Detroit MI to Chicago. One-way the first year and then back the next. While performing the escort there would be entertainers onboard. One year they had a famous drummer named Buddy Rich. He was really good. The search and rescue was not so bad ether. It was more like a job then being in service. You could leave the base at night and go to your apartment and you were on your own time. Except every fourth day you were scheduled for duty for twenty-four hours. When I left the service I came back to Denver. Where I met my wife Mary. We have been married for thirty years now. We have two girls. The oldest is Dottie and she has given us two grand children. Two girls one 10 years old and the second is almost 5. We also have a younger daughter that is you might say is trying to find herself. (See pictures) When ...Expand for more