Mark Carney:  

Life I lived in Lake Oswego (8th St) for a little over a year and went to kindergarten at Forest Park Elementary school up the hill a few blocks. We moved to Lords Lane in Lake Grove where I attended Palisades Elementary 1st - 6th. I watched Waluga Junior High being built and attended there as a 7th grader the year it opened. After completing Jr High I spent 6 mo.s attending Thruston High in Eugene and then 6 mo.s in Ontario High, Ontario, OR, 6 mo.s in Canby High and then joined the Marine Corps a few days after my 17th Birthday. I spent 3 years active duty which included boot camp and MCRD San Diego, infantry training at Camp Pendleton, MOS training as a teletype operator at MCRD San Diego. I was granted a top secret security clearance and sent to my first duty station at MCAS El Toro, a Marine air base just south of L.A., where I worked in communications facility. While there I turned 18 and volunteered for a tour of duty in Viet Nam. I served in Danang with the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in a high security communications facility near the U.S. military airbase in Danang. Nixon pulled the troops out of Viet Nam while I was there so I finished my overseas tour of duty in Iwakuni, Japan at a small Marine airbase. I then finished out my service at Camp Pendleton, in the 1st Marine Division. After being honorably discharged I moved Ontario, OR to visit with family and ended up staying for a few years. There I joined the LDS (Mormon) church, met my first wife and married. We had our first two sons while living there. I had gotten a GED while I was in the Marines and I used the GI bill to go to college at Treasure Valley Community College there in Ontario. I worked full time and went to school full and part time, depending on our finances, for 3 years. When I was ready to advance my schooling to the university level we moved to the Beaverton/Aloha area. While working 3 part time jobs and going to school at PSU my eldest son, Gerry, then age 2, was discovered to have a very aggressive form of brain tumor. After emergency surgery, radiation and starting on chemo he returned home, only to die from a lung infection during one of the courses of chemo, which fatally suppressed his immune response, a couple of months later. Two years later my next oldest son, Michael, had to have an appendectomy and then died from septic shock due to an intern responsible for his care failing to recognize the symptoms of an infection long enough for it to do so much harm that he could not recover. He was 2 1/2. My first wife and I had 6 additi...Expand for more