Richard Crawford:  

A Profile----New and Improved No, not me, just my profile. In order to fill in some blanks I have completely redone my profile for my Classmates page(s). To begin with, I must state that I was a “military brat” and as such, I did have the occasion to move, frequently I might add, thus attending multiple schools, sometimes during the same academic year. OK. OK, the start. I was born in California, outside of Los Angeles, in what is no longer the small city of Glendale. Now to skip forward about 10 years or so, after attending eight elementary schools in California, Texas, and one in Florida I ended up in Homestead, Florida for Junior High and my first of three high schools. My first high school was South Dade High School, a 9-12 school, and I was really like a lost child when I started due to my young and tender age of 12. It was really hard to make friends at that level due to my age. I do remember a couple that were in my Advance Biology class, I think the teacher was Mr. Peeples (he looked like Wally Cox, you know Mr. Peepers), anyhow they were Libby Baker and Danny Steele. I went out for football my junior year, but I was not only light, but slow too. OH well. Then in December of my junior year, that would be 1959, I moved to Saginaw, Michigan to complete the second half of the 11th grade (this was done to keep my schools attended that year to only 2 instead of 3 due to military transfers). That is how I ended up at Arthur Hill H.S. I was staying with my aunt and uncle and their kids and one of them, Charles Schilz, went to AHHS. I did not make any long lasting friendships there. Some called me Tex, even though I had just moved there from Florida. Go figure! With my junior year over, I moved to Cape Cod, Massachusetts and onto Otis Air Force Base. The housing area I lived in was had me attend Bourne (I was only there for my Senior Year and graduated in 1961) rather than Falmouth. I really liked the OLD school, overlooking the canal for a couple of classes, then cutting lunch and heading through the woods to Ats for lunch and then trying to make it back and not be tardy. Sometimes we made it and sometimes, well you know. Moving into Bourne for my Senior year wasn’t quite as bad as it may seem, my dad’s entire squadron moved up from Florida so I knew quite a few kids from there and then I made a few new friends almost all of which were from the base. I use to run with Bob and Bill Hardin, Bill was a senior, and Jake Gould. My girlfriend was Marilyn Jetton, she was in the class o 1963. After graduating, I attended Florida State University for a year and a half. I could not make up my mind what to study and changed my major about 8 times in three semesters. My girlfriend, Marilyn, moved to Orlando in late 1961, which meant that I only had a four-hour drive to get down to see her. That was nice. In December of ’62, while home (now in New Mexico) for the holidays, Marilyn and I broke up, and I ended up transferring to Midwestern University (now called Midwestern State University) in Wichita Falls, TX. I could not continue the USAF ROTC that I had started at FSU so I switched to Army ROTC. In 1968 I got married, that part of the story I will skip over as I would rather forget it. I graduated there and received my commission as a 2Lt. in the Infantry Branch in August of 1969. The Army was an experience: Ft. Benning, GA, then on to Augsburg, Germany and later to Stuttgart, Germany before heading to the Republic of South Korea. All of this was in ...Expand for more