Lee Smith:  

Sure is a long way from those simpler days at Aiken and yes I do remember them despite the haze and horror of the 60's. Not having the grades to get into college I went to NAM (Navy) right out of high school - we weren't rich enough to be sheltered in college. Was medically retired after 4 years due to a freak and serious flight deck accident aboard the USS Kitty Hawk. Spent more than a year learning how to walk again. Came home in 1970 - student at University of Cincinnati 1970-1975, Bachelors of Urban Planning. Married Sandra Reifsnyder in 1973, she's from Alliance Ohio - we met at UC. Moved to Jacksonville Florida in 1976 and have lived here since. Worked for various departments of city government (Jax city HUD, the Planning Department and Transportation Planning Department). Along the way I picked up a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of North Florida (1986). Maybe halfway through a doctorate at the University of Florida if I ever get off my keister and do the thesis, a definite maybe, perhaps. Not bad for a retard that colleges spurned in 1965, isn't it? Am now retired (NAM injuries finally caught up with me), no children by choice after the horrors I encountered in Nam, and Sandy was in a class when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on student protesters on the quad of Kent State in early May of 1970 (she was cram a few CPA courses to avoid losing credit when she came to Jacksonville and transferred to the University of North Florida). Sandy just fo...Expand for more