Larry Waldrep:  

Janet ask me a while back to write a little story and let everyone know what I've been up to. So here it is. Let me start by saying that I have three beautiful daughters, nine grandchildren (eight grandsons and one granddaughter) and one great grandson (2 months old). I started high school at Phoenix Union, Mike, Bob, Marcus and myself. Bob met a girl form East in our sophomore year and talked the rest of us to transfer to east so he could go to school with his new love.I personally didn't think it was a good idea, since a very beautiful girl who was going to East had broken my heart the year before and I still hadn't gotten over it. But in the end I transferred. I started dating someone later on, and to make this short, we had daughter born in March of 1970. Our relationship didn't last, and on June 30th I enlisted in the army. I mean, what was the big deal, I was going to be drafted anyway. So off I went to Ft Lewis Washington for 8 weeks of basic training. I ran into a few friends from Phoenix and East there. After basic came Advanced individual training for another 8 weeks, and then to Ft Benning for airborne training, just four weeks there. I finally ended up at FT Bragg, my permanent duty station with the 47th engineer battalion combat airborne. Later I reenlisted and joined the military police since my plan was to return to phoenix ...Expand for more