Archie Lee Atwell:
CLASS OF 1974
Berkmar High SchoolClass of 1974
Lilburn, GA
Archie Lee's Story
I have been working hard trying to make something out of my life. Became Certified as Professional Carpenter and Home Repair Specialist through the Professional Career Development Institute ,and opened a successful Home Repair Business. Not to mention becoming one of the first All Volunteer Armies after the fall of Siagon at the end of the Vietnam War in May of 1975. I served 3 1/2 years only 7 miles from the East Germany and Checkoslavakian Borders as a First Responder with the Combat Support Company during a time that America thought we may be attacked in Europe for looking so weak in Vietnam...
So much has changed over the last few years.: I no longer have my health or my strength. Bursitis set into my knees for being a one man crew most of the time and being a show off because I was so strong . Now I can barely walk or sell my legs for even an hour without both knees swelling and bruising along with my lower legs. I stay in constant pain all t...Expand for more
he time. My third wife passed away 6 weeks after we married so I have been alone, depressed, ,feeling both unloved and unwanted.: Not only by my friends ...but by my family as well . Although I have no car neither one of my sisters ever called me come by or wonder how I am. Let's care less if I die which almost did this past June and 1st of July when I fell and broke eight ribs on my left side and punctured along then my sister's call ? Not Once. Do they ever invite me down for Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner? Never !
And even though I don't have a vehicle because I only get $860 a month SSI.... my sister's feel like they are too good to come up on a dirt road to see their brother or take him to their house to make him feel like he is still part family. So really I should say that I am their former brother...
And to be frankly honest I doubt very seriously that when I do die they will even come to a memorial service for me. Oh well, that's life.
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