Steve King:  

After graduation I decided that I wanted to go camping so I joined the good old USMC. Hey, it is as good a reason as any. Fortunately I was out by the time Vietnam started and by then my draft card then said "Women & Children First." I hired in at Ford as an electrician apprentice in 1965 and retired as an electrician leader in 2007 with 42 years of service. I usually enjoyed my job at Ford. They were very patient with me as I went through life breaking bones, tearing muscles and tendons, most of which was NOT work related. I think that it had something to do with the drinking, motor cycles and skydiving phases of my life. If I had known that I was going to live this long, believe me, I would have taken better care of myself. Ford put me on afternoons for awhile and I spent a good deal of time dating dancers and barmaids. I got married to #1 in 1968 and got out of it in 1978. We had adopted an infant boy from Catholic Social Services Agency in August of 73 when he was a month old. We were able to use the agency because she was Catholic and I was merely an Episcopalian. In the end I got full custody of my son while living with #1-1/2. Who would have tho...Expand for more