Jackie Powell:  

I hope to move home to Kentucky in the near future. I so wanted to get out of there. I didn't have any freedom at home. I needed to get out on my own and experience some of what the world had to offer. The United States Air Force allowed me to do that. I was on active duty for both of the recent wars. Desert Storm/Desert Shield, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. I work as a corrections officer for the Delaware Department of Corrections. I didn't talk to anyone at home for many years outside of family. Classmates helped me reconnect. I made it home for the twenty year reunion. It was a good time. I missed the first two, the first one due to the military, and the second one because I never found out about it. There are a lot of things I miss about living in Kentucky. The people are a lot more friendly. I guess you have to leave a situation to miss what it was that you had there. I would love to go into the Forensics career field, either that or something in the medical arena. I think forensics is so interesting. I love watching those shows on the weekends. The way investigators look at crimes, explore the evidence, and find the guilty parties. I love to travel, I would like to see a lot more of the world. I want to see Alaska and Hawaii, I have been to most of the other states. I have not been up the East Coast - Vermont, New Hampshire that area. Which is sad, because I have been in Delaware almost twenty years, but I didn't have the get out and do things spirit until a few years ago. I let my fears and what I thought were obligations to people hold me back. I didn't follow my dreams. That is a regret that I have had. You need to follow your heart. I was not encouraged to follow dreams as a child, you needed to be practical. Sometimes you need to believe in Pixie Dust. I attended Eastern Kentucky University for a while, wish I had graduated. My life would probably be different. Wish I had the courage to pick a different major, like computers. If I somehow came into money, I would travel, pay off the rest of my bills, and then give some to my nieces and nephews. Fix up my house some, and give my cats a more spoiled existence than they already have. I love to sleep late on weekends. I love to shop. Although with the economy the way it is, a lot of that has been put on hold. I love to eat out at restaurants, I love to experience new things. I have been to Germany, and Spain courtesy of the military. I worked in the control tower in Germany, taxiing the aircraft, we didn't depart them, due to the fact that the Germans controlled the flight line since it was a German airport. I worked in Spain in a Personnel capacity, we greeted the new people to the base, got them set up with a place to stay, and processed them into the base. Set them up with appointments, and processed their records. Also kept track of all personnel that entered and exited the base. A nice break from what I had been doing. It was stress free. It was a nice chill experience. I ...Expand for more