Ron Escobedo:  

Life LIFE BIO - Where does one begin? I graduated from Ft.Knox HS, and went to Murray State University in 1973. Small town, big fun. Tried to play football and become a Racer, instead opted to be a long-haired hippie Art student. I decided to travel across the country and ended up in California (with $14 in my pocket) via Mexico and many states in between during the summer of 1975!. As I think back, there WERE some scary, creepy moments in the desert between Texas and CA! Lucky guy, I guess. Anyway, while working like a pack mule in CA, I found out I was awarded a 2-Year ROTC scholarship after all. I came back to Murray State University by way of a one way Greyhound bus ticket to Kentucky. I arrived at the Ft. Knox bus station flat broke! It was a great travelling adventure that July starting in California, via Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and finally to Kentucky...having begun the journey at 6AM in a hot dusty Greyhound station in Indio, CA .....deathly hungover getting on the bus..... almost stayed on the bus to Calexico with a Mexican beauty...cried in my beer in Yuma at a bar, after missing my bus....ran out of money in El Paso...an old boxer felt sorry for me and bought me an egg salad sandwich and cup of coffee in Little Rock...and finally, I was home! I had no money to call anyone, so I walked home from the Greyhound station to 423 A Street! I graduated from Murray State University with a B.A. in History and was commissioned in June 1977 as an Armor officer. My ROTC Commander my senior year was LTC. Johnny Ralph Pritchard...Jodie Pritchard's dad! After two years of hard knocks with the RDF in Ft.Stewart, I went to Mannheim, Germany and 5/68 Armor via Ft. Knox again. One exciting note was that while at Ft. Stewart,GA - I was the Platoon Leader of 2nd Platoon, Charlie Company, 5/32nd Armor..the same platoon my father had had as a Platoon Sergeant 13 years before! I am still looking for that original crest - (Yellow Enamel with a Red Lightning Bolt through it) and that excellant motto VICTORY OR DEATH. If you have one, I would love to buy it! But I digress. After arriving in Germany, I met one of my best friends, Dave Ermi from "Aliquippa P-A", who is now my brother-in-law (married to my sister Diane for 23 years). Strange world. Since then, life has been a real adventure. Having travelled to CA on my own in 1975, I decided that the world was waiting to be discovered and since that epiphany, I have been to 37 states, 28 countries and 5 continents. The people and women in many of the countries I stopped in were just awesome! I met my wife in Germany, an Australian beauty named Suzanne from Sydney, Australia who had worked for the military and was then at the University of Maryland - Heidelbe...Expand for more