{"id":107189,"date":"2013-05-27T15:44:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T19:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/107189\/memerial-day-may-27th-for-honoring-veterans\/"},"modified":"2013-05-27T15:44:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T19:44:33","slug":"memerial-day-may-27th-for-honoring-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/107189\/memerial-day-may-27th-for-honoring-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Memerial Day May 27th for honoring Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

I joined the Marine Corp in
\n December of 1963, about a Month after President John F. Kennedy was
\n assassinated. To quote him “Ask not what your country can do for you BUT
\n what you can do for your country.”<\/span><\/p>\n

On New Years Eve, I and about
\n 10 others arrived at San Diego, California and was received by a Marine Corp
\n Sergant who was not happy to see us. I went through Marine Boot Camp in San
\n Diego and Rifle training at Camp Mathews just North of San Diego. I had
\n advanced combat training at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Back to San Diego for radar
\n and radio training where I graduated as the class honor man. Promoted to
\n Private First Class. <\/span><\/p>\n

Off I went to Cherry Point
\n Marine Air Wing, North Carolina and became a member of Marine Air Control
\n Squadron 7. Around the fall of 1964 I shipped out of Cherry Point at Moore Head City, South
\n Carolina boarded a Troop ship to Spain on Operation Steel Pike 1, the largest
\n amphibious operation since World War II. We was in country at Spain on a NATO
\n training exercise for a couple of months attached to the Fleet Marine force
\n Mediterranean. We had R and R in the Canary Islands for a week. Back to Cherry
\n Point, NC. <\/span><\/p>\n

I shipped out from
\n Cherry
\n Point, NC in March of 1965 to Okinawa, Japan for 3 months. Promoted to
\n Lance
\n Corporal. Viet Nam geared up when President Johnson said to send in the
\n Marines
\n and there I was in the Pacific on Okinawa so he said SEND THEM! Off I
\n went two
\n weeks later where I landed June 1965 with the first Marines at Chu Lia,
\n Viet
\n Nam which was not much more then a large Fire Base. The day following my
\n arrival I discovered–YES I am in a war when I and 3 other of my
\n friends was coming off the parimenter we came under sniper rifle fire
\n bidding us welcome to the war. I was promoted to Corporal
\n still with MACS 7. I left a year later in June 1966. Chu Lia had become a
\n Major
\n Marine and Helicopter air base. I returned home Via way of Okinawa, Wake
\n Island
\n and Hawaii to El Toro Marine Air Station, California where I went home
\n on
\n leave.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ten Days after my return from
\n Viet Nam I was married In Wichita, Kansas June 25th, 1966 to Dianna Lynn Pfannenstiel
\n class of 1965 at South High School but she attended Campus High till her last
\n semester of her senior year. I was 24 years old and she had just turned 19. I have two Daughters; Christina (one Grand
\n Daughter age 20) and Cynthia (one Grand Daughter age 9 and one Grand Son age 11).<\/span><\/p>\n

I returned to El Toro, Calif.
\n to complete my three year enlistment where I was promoted to Sergeant. I joined
\n the Head Quarters Commanding Generals staff. I was offered a commission to
\n Lieutenant to re up for another 4 years but I took my discharge and returned to
\n Wichita, Kansas. In my three years in The Marine Corp I saw a lot of the world
\n and my share of war. It was an adventure ashore, in the air and afloat. I was
\n able to pull myself together and I think I have had a good life with its ups
\n and downs.<\/span><\/p>\n

I graduated from Central
\n Business College with a degree in Drafting and Engineering in 1968. I became a
\n private pilot around 1970. I became an aero space engineer in 1967 where I
\n worked for Beech Aircraft, Boeing and mostly Cessna Aircraft In Wichita,
\n Kansas. In 1968 I returned to Wichita State University till 1970 majoring in
\n Mechanical Engineering. I moved to Texas in 1986 working for E-Systems in
\n Greenville, TX. In 1992 I came to Waco, Texas working for Chrysler Technology\/
\n Raytheon which is now L-3 Communications. My claim to fame, I would guess, is
\n that I worked on AIRFORCE 1 both the old 707 and 747 aircraft plus some fancy
\n executive aircraft for Brunei and Saudi Arabia, the SOFIA airborne space
\n telescope and some Navy P-3 spy planes and other planes that I would have to shoot
\n you if you found out about them.<\/span><\/p>\n

During my life I was a very
\n active thespian acting in musicals and plays. I was with the Wichita Children’s
\n theater at the Irene Vicars Backer Theater both as an actor and as an assistant
\n director for Sister Ambrozine who was a nun. GO FIGURE A EX MARINE AND A NUN WORKING TOGETER WITH KIDS!!—grins
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

I retired from L-3
\n Communications in Waco, Texas on July 31st, 2008. I am now 71 years old as of
\n April 3rd.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was attending Baylor
\n University here in Waco, Texaas until taking a year off to be my wife’s care taker
\n with her having 4 back surgerys since 2009. She is disability retired and is
\n 67 years old today May 27th<\/sup>. I am a college Junior majoring in Art
\n History with a 3.50 GPA out of a 4.0. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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