Andre S Burgess:  

Where Do I Start? Hummmmmmm? Okay! During High School, I Was, Let's Say...Very Quite! If It Were Not For My Few Friends.... An Alternate Life Path Would Have Been Taken Which Wouldn't Have Been Good... For Anybody And I'll Leave That, Where It Belongs.... In the Past Under Lock And Armed Guards. After Graduation: I Wanted To Join The Navy! Oh Yeah! To Follow My Granddad! But, No Joy! Was To Be Found. My Medical Conditions (Heart, Eyesight (remember my glasses), And Athlete¿s foot (Oh Boy, We're Getting' Personal Now!) Kept Me Out.... Of Everything. Believe It Or Not, I Was The Only Guy From Washington To Be Driven Back To the District From Fort Dix, NJ¿s (Army Induction Station). The Box Lunch Was An Apple, Bologna Sandwich, Oatmeal Cookie and A Carton Of Milk Or Apple Juice. I Had A Choice! There Was Just the Driver and I! We Talked and Talked. He Told Me, "That In All the Trips He Had Made, I Was the First And Only Person He Brought Back". Taking It As An Opportunity, I Told Him This Would Not Stop Me From what I Wanted. I Just Had To Find A Way! Nevertheless, I Went To Work For the NAVY, The Naval Research Laboratory In Southwest For 2 years As A Electronics Technician. I Then Started College At FCC (Federal City College), Later To Become The University Of the District of Columbia, (UDC). Schoolwork Was A Breeze. Far Different From Western. Well, I've Got To Go Now.... Tune Back In To the Further Adventures Of Andre, the Guy From The City! Well, I¿m Back! Having A Good Family Life Growing Up...I Did Many Things! Starting At The Beginning... I've Always Had An Interest In Science, Electricity, Moving Things and Why They did what they did. This Became An Instrumental Part Of My Professional Life To Come. Starting Out, I Was Good! I Just Didn't Know How good! I Should Have Become A Pirate! Born Way Too Late For That Though. The Fun Would Have Been Sticking Someone With A Saber, Twisting the Thing In and Kicking Their Lifeless Body Over The Side! But I'll Save That Story For Later! Growing Up I Made My Own Rockets, Rocket Fuel And Launch Platforms. Needless To Say, It Got Me In Hot Water Literally. One Saturday Morning, While My Dad Was Vacuuming Downstairs, I Was Upstairs In The Locked Bathroom, Launching BicPen Missiles Out My Window. Short Story! As they left My Window, They Left Behind A Black Sooty Smoke and Disappeared Out Of My View. One Broke Through This Ladies Plate Glass Window. And She Was Mad. Ca...Expand for more