Kirk Callesen:  

Life I live in Copenhagen, Denmark and have done so for about 19 years now. I am divorced and have a 18 year old son, named, Christian. This is now, but what transpired between then and now well, where do I begin? I joined the Army in Sept. 1975 and served three years in Germany with the 3rd Armored Division. I was a 'scout'(MOS 19D) in a mech infantry unit and in many ways the things that I experienced shaped my whole life. I became a kinda of adrenalin junkie; I needed things fast and dangerous to get my fix. Sky diving was one; women, sex, drugs and rock and roll were some of the others. The military allowed me an outlet to push myself, get ‘crazy’ as it were and get recognition for it. I did things that to this day I really wondered how I am still in one piece. I had a nice little career going when my enlistment ended in September ’78 but, it wasn’t enough. I thought I had lost something of my youth and I was determined to get it back. I had pretty much deluded myself into thinking that everything would be as I had left it (in California), friendships would be the same, and life would kinda of resume albeit just as I had left it. So I left the Army, with an honorable discharge, an Army Commendation medal (which at that time were rarely given to enlisted personal and even less so to those who were leaving the Army) and what I thought was a lot of catching up to do. I visited California within weeks of my discharge, still driving the same old blue econoline van which I had prior to my enlistment. Nothing was the same. People and places change a lot in three years and then again they don’t. Perhaps it was just me who had changed. While I still had friends, they were from the past and that’s ok, but, how could they understand what I had been through, what I h...Expand for more