Robert Bretz:  

To start with I've been married to Marianne since February, 1971.Marianne is the Payroll Manager of A.O. Smith Corp. I sure was Blessed to marry her and to have the family I have including our dog PJ. We have 2 sons, Bob 37, who is a pilot living in Northern, Ca. He is married and has one daughter, Danika, who is just beautiful. People say she looks like me. Lucky girl!! Danika was born on Marianne's and my Wedding Anniversay.They just had a son, Cody Robert, born December 31, 2009. We haven't had a chance to see him yet. Can't wait. It's so hard to see them a lot living so far a way. Bobby and Danika came home for my birthday last weekend, which was between February 5 through the 8, 2010. What a great surprise. I couldn't have had a better birthday.Bob was All Everything in football as a running back wearing the same number I had,21. He, also, was All Conference, in Baseball, for 2 years. I was the hitting coach while he played. Now I know how he made All Conference twice.Guess it runs in the family. Our other son David is married and has a Step-Son, Brett,who we consider our real Grand Son.They live in East Troy. He is a Bar and Restaurant Manager in Mukwonago. David, also, played football at New Berlin West High School. He was a defensive end and center. His Senior year he had 10 1/2 sacks and made All Conference.He and Bob were both excellent punters. I was in Banking for over 20 years with 14 years as a Credit Union President. I did a lot of Marketing and Advertising on my job writing and being in TV commercials for the Credit Unions and for Budget Rent A Car. I had a good friend at Budget and he had me do all his commercials.We did a lot of commercials on radio, too.I got invited to all the TV and Radio stations, that we advertised on, Christmas and other parties. That was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed and miss my job and the money.I am very political and VERY CONSERVATIVE. I helped run President Reagan's Campaign in my Congressional District in 1984. In fact, I met and had my picture taken with President Reagan. What a thrill for me. I was the Districts Vice Chairman and then becoming the Chairman. I have met some very interesting people. In 1984 I was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention in Dallas. That was great. I even found time to be Campaign Manager for a friend running for the Assembly. He won by about 70%.I was in charge of Security and Motorcades many times during the Presidential Campaign. I got to go where I wanted during the events and the Secret Service couldn't stop Me.I had to wear a pin on my lapel, though, so they knew I was with the Rep. Party..While working with the Motorcades I drove Vice President Bush's Doctor and another time his Press Scretary. It was so interesting talking and working with all those people.I talked to the Agents who drove behind the Presidents or Vice Presidents car.They would sit in back of this Suburban with their machine guns and other weapons.We would see all these police on top of the buildings across the street. There is a lot of preparation getting ready for these events but it was really fun.I, also, met and had my picture taken with Dick Cheney. He and Bart Starr were speaking at this event. Bart Starr was sitting in front of me so I got to talk with him for awhile. He is such a nice man. Those were the good days.Recently I wrote some satirical political articles for a friend of mine who runs a small town newspaper in Texas. I love to write satire and of course politically. Now I'm on Disabity with having many surgeries and Illness's. Most of the surgeries were from football and lifting weights. I lifted weights a lot in college and lifted 6 days a week until I couldn't handle it anymore.That was in the 1990's. I had back surgery in 2008 leaving me with 50% nerve damage to my right quad(Thigh). I was walking with a walker until a few months ago. Now I can't walk stairs very well or walk long distances. I had my second back operation in 2009 and that went well. THe Doctor told me I have something wrong with each vertebre in my back and neck. My discs are like dust instead of gel. In 2005 I had Quadruple By Pass surgery and now I have Bone Marrow Cancer which is in remission but not curable. Almost everyday I think about when will the cancer return or if something hurts or I don't feel well is it the cancer. I had a Bone Marrow Transplant in December of 2008 and was in the hospital for 19 days. I only had 15 minutes of Chemo but still lost all my hair. My hair is all back now with just a few gray hairs from the transplant. I'm so glad it grew back but it sure grew back slowly. I got through the cancer and transplant thanks to my faith in Jesus Christ. Without Jesus and my family I don't know how I would have made it. I don't know what more to say except I really miss high school and college and all the friendships, sports and all the good times. I'm really having a problem getting old.I am not growing old gracefully. To me, when people say you're only as old as you feel that's not the right thing to say to me. I've seen 90 year olds get around better than me. I think I'm kidding. If only they would say you're only as old as you think or act I'd be a...Expand for more