1949 seems like a million years in this crazy insane life that I have lived.

I remember walking with my brothers and sister to school and home. No television , boom boxes or fast food places.

My father worked nights so things were sort of rough but at least once a month we get to go to the drive-in. Our mother packed cookies, chips and water and we usually got there about one hour before the movie started that so we could play on the playground. Big metal slides ,metal stairs and swings. I really don’t remember watching any of the movies since we had gone to sleep maybe 20 minutes into the first one.

One must remember that this was just five years after World War II and America was getting on her feet. In 10 years we had Sputnik, a man in space color television stereo hi-fi and yes John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

I remember people telling me in school you could be anything that you wanted to be even the president of this country…all I really wanted was to be an astronaut launched into space and yes for a lot of years (I did achieve this) I will explain this later.

I never thought I would reach the age of 30 but at the age of 58 it astounds me how I’ve made it this long in the beginning thinking I was superhuman then settling down with a wife and now just living one day at a time.

The journey goes on.