Rockne Rhoda:  

When I left Madras for college at the University of Oregon I was unsure of my future so I left college and joined the Marine Corps. Completed boot camp and went to several schools for electronics and equipment repair. Eventually became a central office repairman at Quantico, VA. From there I went to recruiters school and spent almost a year recruiting in the West Chicago area. I applied for OCS and was accepted. I was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in September of 1967. After Basic School I went to Communications Officers School and then to Vietnam where I served with the First Logistics Headquarters Battalion as a Communications Officer. I came back in one piece and was stationed at MCAS Yuma. While there I took some classes at the Junior College at Yuma, AZ . I decided to leave the Marine Corps and resigned my commission effective June 30, 1970. At that time I had a wife, an adopted son and one on the way. We moved the Las Vegas, NV where I worked for the phone company while attending the University of Nevada. In 1975 I graduated with a BS in accounting. Worked for a couple of small companies and eventually started my own income tax preparation firm that I had for 20 years. I sold that and went to do what I always wanted to do and that was to be a carpenter. I did that for about seven years until I realized I was too old for that kind of work. I went to work for a construction scheduling firm as their office manager in 2002. In the mean time my wife (C...Expand for more