William Hall:  

It is funny how you end up here one day just to look and see how your old classmates have changed. But then you find out most for some reason can't post a picture. I wonder why that is, most of the time without the then photo I would not recognize the person. When you start to look that is when you realize you want to see the ones you started out in the first grade at Park View and stayed together all those years. That's people like Anita Leek, David Dobbs, Elizabeth Filter, Jeff Sims, John Pelly, Jim Mercer, Nellis Rhodes, Charlie McCoy, Larry Meyers,(Denny Farrell's Sister)was it Deborah, Edgar Heller, Francis Tucker, Barb Carol Kalowski, Carol Plants and my cousin Kenny Crow but I know that is not all and I am sorry if I spelled the names wrong. I can still remember a couple of teacher¿s names like the music teacher Mrs. Lawler and another named Welch and I think she was the principal. I wonder why I remember her name HAHA. I really think that was the best time because you went to school so close to home. You played with the people you went to school with. There were stores on so many corners. The corner of Oak and Park, halfway up Oak, Linden and Park, near the top of Linden, Scotty¿s on Linden near the laundry mat, the small store across from the laundry mat. My first crush lived a few houses up from Scotties. I remember making crafts on the weekends in the playground at the top of Park View School. The Playground didn't use to be there. John Marshall seemed to go quickly. I was never crazy about school and I did OK without college but I was lucky with investments and made some wise choices without knowing what I was doing. Today if I were in school I think I would go to college. The Military was what I wanted because I wanted to get out of Moundsville and travel. I wanted to see the world and boy did I. First deployment had me living in the Philippines because that was where the bombs were and that was my job. There were trips to Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Australia and Japan. At the end of my enlistment I went home because I was tired of being told what to do. The military helps some grow up but not me. I still have not grown up in a couple of ways. Well in 1975 I fell in love with an accident victim and got married. I was all the sudden working in the coal mine (#7 in OHIO) with two babies and a wife. Remember I still hadn¿t grown up so one day the wife and babies were gone and the job...Expand for more