Got out of the Navy in 74. Went to work for the city as an electrician. Work for them for about a year then went to construction electrician. For about five years, went back to the city as electoral inspector. Went to the fire department as a fire inspector. Work for them for about a year. City manager asked me to come back as the Chief Electrical Inspector. I said okay. Work as the Chief Electrical Inspector for about 18 years. Retired from the city with 20 years service. I taught night school at the junior-college for about 18 of those 20 years. When I retired I opened my own business, as Electrical Consultant and Teacher of the National Electric Code. I now work for the state I teach a Continuing Ed class. All electricians in the state of Texas have to have four hours of Continuing Ed. That is what I teach now, usually in the month of January February March just about every Saturday for four hours. I also have a houseboat out on the lake that I go to Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday. I usually catch enough catfish to feed myself and grandson when he comes.
Other Comments:
AIRCREW FOREVER
"FOR ONCE YOU HAVE TASTED FLIGHT,
YOU WILL FOREVER WALK THE EARTH
WITH YOUR EYES TURNED SKYWARD.
FOR THERE YOU HAVE BEEN,
AND THERE YOU WILL ALWAYS
LONG TO RETURN"
Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
Cold War Event - Cuban Blockade
From Month/Year
October / 1962
To Month/Year
November / 1962
Description The blockade began October 21 and, the next day, Kennedy delivered a public address alerting Americans to the situation. In his speech, he warned a frightened American public that the missiles on Cuba were capable of hitting Washington, D.C. or anywhere in the southeastern portion of the country, the Panama Canal, Mexico City or “as far north as Hudson Bay, Canada, and as far south as Lima, Peru.” A military confrontation appeared imminent when Kennedy told his audience that he ordered the evacuation of the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and put military units on standby. Boldly, he stated, “one path we shall never choose is the path of surrender or submission.”
Khrushchev responded by sending additional ships—possibly carrying military cargo—toward Cuba and by allowing construction at the missile sites to continue. Over the following six days, the Cuban Missile Crisis, as it is now known, brought the world to the brink of global nuclear war while the two leaders engaged in tense negotiations via telegram and letter.
Fortunately by October 28, Kennedy and Khrushchev had reached a settlement and people on both sides of the conflict breathed a collective but wary sigh of relief. The Cuban missile sites were dismantled and, in return, Kennedy agreed to close U.S. missile sites in Turkey.
