Frank Tartaglia:  

Life As of January 2015: Married father of 5 children (oldest, 26, West Point graduate, and now a Captain in the Army; youngest is 11 years). Two oldest married this year; next oldest engaged; we are also new grandparents! Retired from the Army, working as a civilian contractor, and spent over 5 years between Iraq and Afghanistan. Back home in North Carolina. Missing Long Island A LOT!!!!! I am slightly envious of you who were able to settle down with a family and decent career to be able to remain on the Island. Of course, I had too much travel-lust in my blood---worked, lived, traveled in many different places around the US and Europe. Too much time in the Middle East, although I highly recommend visiting Dubai, it is a wonderful place. Last year we visited Australia and New Zealand---absolutely LOVE both places, especially Australia. Sydney is probably one of the prettiest cities we have ever visited, right up there with San Francisco, Munich, Rome, and Budapest. Janet and I did spend some time in Munich, Garmisch, Innsbruck, Rome, and the Vatican a couple of years ago and even went to dinner at the restaurant in Munich where we had our first date over 28 years ago! My professional interests remain law enforcement, intelligence collection, languages.....eh, my language skills these days are not so good, although we surprised ourselves to find our German was still not too bad when we visited in 2011...Expand for more