Richard C. Snow:  

Life Hello Friends, After Sequoyah I joined the U.S.Army as a Military Police.I served as a patrolman with the 709th M.P.Bn.In Germany for two and a half years Before returning to Atlanta where I made a good living as a crane operator.I retired sept.6th 2001. I live near Covington Ga. and share my house and property with my wonderful dog Ziggy. I named her after a dog that served in Vietnam. Her serial number was 2-M-78. She lost her life there in the line of duty in 1970 as a scout dog for the United States Army . She served along with more than 4000 other military dog's who were almost all trained here in Georgia at Fort Benning and Fort Gordon. Some served in combat for as long as 6 years. Most of them died of heat stroke , malnutrition and snake bite. Only 204 came home to America. I will be 56 this dec..I do enjoy being retired and spending my time with my hobbies and dog.I have always loved music and am tring to learn to play the steel guitar,banjo and slide guitar. I also like to garden, hunt, fish and target shoot. I also like to go on short hike's and bird watch. I also have 4 old farm tractors and like to tinker with them and drive them. The oldest is a 1953 w-6 McCormick International Harvester Farmall. The next oldest is a 1955 Farmall 200, which is the same age as me. Maby a few months older since I was born in december that year. Then the next and largest and most powerful is a 1957 720 Standard Diesel John Deere that I got out of Canada. It still has the original US export tag from 1957 banded around the brass serial number tag riveted to the engine block of the old beautiful John Deere tractor. It has a 376 cubic inch twin cylinder diesel engine , with a gas powered V-4 engine as a pony-motor starter that sit's on top of the large powerful diesel engine. I have two other smaller International Harvester tractors also. I then have a 1972 International Harvester 1600 Load Star flat bed truck that is large enough to haul and transport the large 10,000 pound John Deere 720 Diesel tractor. I also collect and drive Mercedes Benz cars. I owned 5 at one time. I have since sold 2 and still own 3 of them. They are older, but quit nice for there age. The 300 S class diesel Mercedes Benz still looks nearly new and drives so good that I would rather have it than most new cars today. The other 2 are 240- Diesel's. the 1981 240-D that I drive as my every day car still gets 30 miles per gallon of diesel fuel. That is important with today's fuel cost. It's still beautiful also. I have a 3/4 ton 1988 4x4 Chevy Suburban if the going get's tough and a 1977 GMC , former bread truck if I need a camper when I go fishing or hunting. I also have 3 motorcycles, I bought my first one in 1968 when I was 13 years old and still lived in Florida. . It was a very beautiful Bultaco Matador from Spain. I wish I still had that one. I have a Honda Gold Wing , a Yamaha 650 XLT street & trail and a 550 Yamaha Vision from 1982. I also love camera's and photography . I bought my first camera in Germany when I was a Military Police. It was a 35mm Nikon and I took thousand's of nice photo's over there with it . One day I may up-load several of them for all of you to see. I have some great photo's from Berlin, Germany and several from the 6th & 7th International Military Police competitions during 1975 & 1976 . Where I won Bronze medals both year's while representing the United States Army during the International Police competitions that use to be held in and around the country side of Dusseldorf in mid-northern Germany. The photograph's that I love and cherish the most by far are from in and around my former wonderful's German girlfriend's house in Schneizlreuth, Germany, which is right on the northern Austrian border. Salzburg Austria is just a few kilometers south of the Kari, family home where I turned 21 years old . Maria gave my a wonderful birthday party there at her house. I could walk to Austria in around 5 minutes just south across a very cold river and down an old dirt road with the Alpine mountains all around me. Still to this day ,I have never seen any place even close to being as beautiful as it is right there. Maria ask and tried to get me to just stay there at the Kari family home with her. I have wished a thousand times I had stayed . I loved her so much. I thought it would be very hard for me to get a job, not being able to speak German very well. I just didn't think I could support her the way she deserved to be taken care of . She was such a wonderful fantastic young woman. I thought she would be better off if I just return back to America. I just didn't have anything to offer her. I had no family or home to...Expand for more