Randall Gann:  

68 grad, 69 went down for the draft with Craig Rogers. They drafted Craig & refused me because I had a police record. That's the last time I saw Craig, he was killed in Vietnam. 3 months later, after they lowered the standards I was drafted on April Fools Day, 1969. I went to Germany as a clerk, a typist. That's the one class at East High that helped my future. The only reason I took the class was because it was mostly girls & it had no homework. In the Army in Germany I could not be promoted as a clerk, so they promoted me as a field radio repairman. It was more money so I said o.k. Vietnam called & said they needed a field radio repairman. When I got to Vietnam they asked for people who could type & I got a job typing orders for people coming home. Once again, my education at East High paid off. I got an early out for going to college, came home in January, 71 & went to Ellsworth College, in Iowa Falls. For awhile I lived with Harry Thulstrap & Doug McLenen (sp). College was like East High, a good time, not to learn. I went there for 3 years before I realized it was 2 year school. Only got arrested 5 times. I was not a hard core criminal, I was just taking charges for others. We would have keg parties, charge people money to get in & that would pay our rent. We got raided & the police charged all 5 of us $25, the first time. The second time they charged us $50 & I said it was my party & everybody else was gone. Everybody else paid the fine & it went on my record. It was cheaper for me & I did'nt mind the record. The 3rd time they charged me $75, everybody else paid, so o.k. Another time the biggest football player punched an older town man. He was going to play in a bowl game in Arizona & if they charged him he could'nt play. I said I punched the man, they charged me, the football player paid the fine & he got to play. All was happy. Another time John Tovar & I walked out of a tavern with a few cases of beer. We stopped in an alley to urinate, the police caught us with the beer & got us for being minors with alcohol. Once again all were happy. They did'nt get us for stealing the beer, just for being minors with beer. The early 70's, I hitchhiked across the country, San Francisco to Norfolk, Virginia. My first ride from San Francisco was my best ride ever, a very good ride. It was a woman from Hawaii who had some good Hawaian herb. At night she would bu...Expand for more