James Martin:  

Coming from a U.S. Marine Corps family I moved around quite a bit. Only grades completed at a single school are 1st, 4th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. Even though I graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1984 having spent 20 years in the U.S. Air Force I attended many junior/community colleges because of continued change of stations. Retired from the Air Force in 1993 and moved to my wife's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts....yeah, "The People's Republic of Taxachusetts." Since retiring I've worked in the access control industry and now in the IT industry as a government contractor for Lockheed-Martin. Been doing part-time retail sales for Ham Radio Outlet in Salem, New Hampshire since 1995. Live only 1.5 miles from the state line. Using the story wizard: I always wanted to be an airline pilot when I grew up. My family and friends thought that was a dumb idea. As it turns out, they were probably right.. I like to go off by myself to the forest or mountains. I also love prospecting in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. My Grandpa Nelson was one of my biggest heros. I don't ever remember seeing him angry. I did get swatted by him a time or two for misbehaving but he was never ever mean. To me Grampa was like Euell Gibbons. Whenever we went hunting or fishing together in the mountains of California there was always a plant or tree from which he would pick something edible and hand it to me. He knew so much about science I guess that's where my love for that field came from. I'm not a math whiz but my love for Geology, Astronomy, Nature in general, Electronics, carpentry I can attribute from him. He's still alive...in me and my youngest son is named after him. Now I have grandchildren of my own and I want to be to them what he was to me. I would like to see Sally McDonough, my 8th grade Geography teacher. As a matter of fact I ran into her last year when I was getting my Toyota Tundra inspected at the local mechanic's. She just happened to be sitting in the wa...Expand for more