James Rhodes:  

James is from Whitehall, Ohio. He is single. His schools include Beechwood Elementary School, Whitehall-Yearling High School and East Campus Berkeley California. After I graduated I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force 1971 and somehow managed to stay out of the brig. Though I did nothing of any importance I can say I served my country with pride and dignity when others spit on me and others that bare the uniform and was discharged Honorably. I returned to Columbus not intending to stay but was hired on the Rail Road Conrail as a Gandy Dancer and repaired bridges in Ohio and West Virginia until 1986 when I fell from a scaffold over a contributory to the Ohio River braking my back. Needless to say I could no longer work the steel and the manual labor. So I got over that and took a job driving a semi (tractor trailer) cross the U.S.A. and that was too much fun like a kid with a toy. I then seem to have found a way to get Legionnaires Disease and spent six months in the hospital, Mt Carmel East were my lungs became decimated by this disease. I spent four ...Expand for more