Katie Moore:  

Life I grew up moving all over the US and overseas...Dad was a career Air Force officer. My favorite place was Ramey Air Force Base, Aquadilla, Puerto Rico. I spent 7th, 8th, and 9th grades there. So I was 12, 13 and 14. My brother Jeff graduated from Ramey High in 1966. Those were three nearly perfect years for me. Because we were on a B52 base, security was tight which gave our parents the ability to give us lots of freedom. Getting around the base was easy, cheap and safe. Most places were within walking distance. There was always the base shuttle bus too. For getting out to the Lazy R riding stables I only needed to call a taxi, load up my saddle and tack and off I'd go. On horseback I could ride to the beach and back. The friends I made there were very special and still mean a great deal to me. In 1967 Dad got orders to Viet Nam so we rotated stateside and settled in North San Diego County (Rancho Bernardo) the summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school. It was the hardest and most upsetting move I had ever made. I spent the summer of '67 in mourning for Ramey, my friends, horses and freedom. The culture shock was staggering for me. I had never heard of grass/marijuana (thought the kids were talking about smoke lawn grass, lol). Dad headed to Viet Nam the same summer youth peace movements started in California and spread across the country. I was truly a stranger in a strange land. Most of the kids I went to school with had no association with the military and most had lived in that area all of their lives. They had gone to school together from first grade, in many cases. I am sure I seemed very alien to them. I worried about my Dad flying combat in yet another war while I watched American flags being burned on college campuses and returning soldiers, airmen, sailors and marines being heckled and spat on and worse as they walked through airports on their return from the horrors of war. Thankfully Dad returned home safely in 1968 and retired from the service. I graduated from Poway High School in 1970. I was voted by my graduating class to be the most likely to replace William F Buckley as the conservative commentator for the 1980 Pr...Expand for more