Michael Messinger:  

Life Married with three daughters, the oldest graduated from TCU and is married, the second graduated from TCU and is an officer in the U.S. Army deployed to Baghdad, Iraq, and the youngest is a sophomore at a local community college. Live in Visalia, CA, where I pastor a church and my wife is a branch manager at a local bank. Education Went to Diablo Valley JC right out of HS, and then spent the next three years in the Army to include a vacation in Vietnam. After that returned to college and after jumping around a few different schools I finally graduated from San Jose State with a BA in Psych. Went on to a theological seminary in Wake Forest, NC, for a Masters of Divinity. I think one of my favorite lines in a song is from "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon, "When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, its a wonder I can think at all!" I would add college to that as well. There is a lot to be said for actual experience! Military Spent twenty-nine years in the U.S. Army, twenty-one on active duty and eight in the Reserves. The first nine years I was a Military Policeman, and I served as a chaplain for the last twenty. Spent a tour in Vietnam and in the Midd...Expand for more