Rebecca Striggow:  

Life My dad was assigned to Ft. Leonard Wood in the summer after my junior year, so it was with some reluctance that I left Rich East and Park Forest....the place of so many happy memories.But Ft. Leonard Wood was a surprise, with so many friendly people there and at the school I attended in Waynesville, Mo. I graduated from high school at Ft. Leonard Wood and then went to college at SW Missouri State for a few months until my dad got assigned to Izmir, Turkey. We lived there for almost 3 years. What a place! Everyone who has ever lived in Izmir is still crazy about it. After living in California for a couple of years I returned to Georgia in order to keep my mother company while my dad went to Viet Nam in 1971. After he returned I decided I was tired of moving, and so stayed in Athens, Georgia, where I still reside. I got a job at a hospital as a ward clerk on ICU, where I discovered I was interested in the goings on in the hospital. I married a advanced EMT who I met there and who, coincidentally, was my best friend. We were married in 1979 and are still going strong. We share the same interests and faith, which has served us well over the years. I became a basic EMT shortly after Brian and I married, which may surprise old friends, as I was a wuss when it came to blood. I worked as an ER tech for about 16 years and a ward secretary for severa...Expand for more