Edward Liddle:  

Life Still married to Pam (Duley, THS Class of '66) for 42 years. Son and daughter and three terrific grandchildren. Many of you know I spent a little over 20 years with Detroit P.D. then came on-board with the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security in 1988. Very fortunate to have visited over 80 countries and did tours in Tunis, Tunisia, Beirut, Lebanon, Baghdad, Iraq, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Hope to survive, then, God willing, retire for good. My tour in Baghdad ended abruptly with the death of my fellow State Department agent and close friend Ed Seitz, killed by a Cartousha rocket at Camp Victory. I had the sad honor of bringing him home. My family told me I was too old to jump in and out of "battle-rattle" every day and tote an M-16 machine gun like a 20 year old U.S. Marine. They were right. So now I am headed to the U.S. Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico as a finish to my career with the Diplomatic Security Service. Hope I make it. For health reasons, the State Department allowed me to return to the Los Angeles Field Office for my "twilight" tour. I will retire from Federal service in June '08. Time do do the things I have waited for all these years. A lot of golf (I broke down, finally, and ...Expand for more