1969?

[Jim G]

To Shanbaum; yes, I know the optical connection. He's still going strong too.

Alan W. Incredible! I too was at LACC...whoops, that was 1959. Just spent a week in Canada with a '57 grad of the optics course now residing in Santa Barbara. Jack Jue, ower of JL lab and I-Coat AR was, I believe, a '59 grad. Any others out there?

Gad, '69. I was out of college, the Navy, my first marriage and had just started my first "real" job, got engaged and bought a house. Other than that, not much.

[stephanie]

Awww..Thanks Mullo!! Yep dad did come back and has dedicated his entire life to helping Vets get their pensions. (yea you thought I was going to say me right???HA!!) Dad is currently the Disabled American Vets Commander of TN so he is always traveling helping the cause. It is a fantastic cause and I am very proud of him (no matter how resentful at times I feel about it.)

Steph

[mikeh]

Running the Army personnel office at the Intelligence School in Oberammergau, Germany. One son on board, with a second on the way (I eventually ended up with five).Came to the States for my brother's wedding on July 29th (the day of "the walk") and returned in time for my my 7th , and final, Oktoberfest in Munich.

[Texas Ranger]

Stephanie, Hooray for your dad! The war ia long ago and far away, for those of us that came back in one piece. But for many, it's not over yet.

[Judy Canty]

In 1969 I was busy getting married (first time) and pretty much oblivious to the rest of the world. I would have been smarter going to Woodstock....

[stephanie]

Thanks Al for your kind words about my Pop!! Yea pop really does give his blood sweat and tears into the organization. All this for the annual salary of.... $0.00. Yep all volunteer always has been. He is almost too nice. Has had vets call the house 2:00am and better asking questions. He never gets mad just patiently answers questions. Drives the van back and forth to Nashville VA hospital usually if he is home at least once a week. Thank God there are people like him in this world.

Steph

[chip anderson]

Seems I was doing very well, there was a still lot of money in contact lenses then and in Mississippi I was about the only one who had a clue how to fit them. Was just divorced and sampling all the things I thought I had missed out on after 11 years of marriage. Had a lot of fun, got in a lot of trouble.

Had my own contact lens manufacturing lab so I could do my retail fitting my way. Had red convertible 400 HP LeMans Sport, and a motorcycle, thought I was something.

Folks regarded us contact fitting opticians as very special technical types (before we moved to the status of shoe salesmen) all this went to my head and at least my ego had a ball.

Damn shame one has to get old.

Chip:)

[Mike Fretto]

The summer of 69 I was probably trying to decide if I liked baseball or girls better. As a thirteen year old baseball meant an awfull lot to me but it seems to me thats about the age the girls in school started looking a little different to me. Maybe I should have concentrated on baseball a little more, given the salary's those guys rake in, then again :D girls arent all that bad either.

[Alan W]

Jim...
Help me find Mark Pratt and I'll give you this genuine set of Ginsu knives right off the shipping dock on KTEL Blvd.

Sorry folks . . . visit Minnetonka some day and you, too, can have a "Tonka" Toy Truck and Ginsu knives . . . and a free tour of the Pentax coating lab!

[rfish777]

I hope you guys are having some fun with this. Stephanie brought
something out that I hope no one forgets. A lot of guys gave there lives for us back home and a lot of guys came back still fighting the war. Let us never forget those guys who fought so we could be sitting here writing e-mails. Way to go Stephanie and please say hello to your dad from us. Let him know we have not forgotten him.


Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:

From the Charge of the light Brigade By Tennison
:)

[hcjilson]

Thats it...just.. Hear!Hear!


hj

[stephanie]

Thanks for your kind words about my dad rfish. Don't worry dad won't be forgotten and he is out there making sure none of you are either!! I will bet my life on that. Have witnessed him accomplish so much for vets. I only hope one day I am as good of an optician as dad is a service officer/state commander(several other titles too). I will relay the message to him though...he always loves hearing about that stuff so it will probably turn into a 3 hour conversation!! God bless all of you and thank you for serving your country!!!!
Steph

[Bev Heishman]

I was 12. I remember watching the landing on TV and going outside and looking at the moon. It was incredible to imagine how we had gone so far from Earth and survived the journey. I was a big astronomy buff. Still am. I had no clue what Woodstock was.

My husband remembers looking through the telescope hoping for a glimpse of American's on the moon. His Dad was doing his first tour in Vietman. A good thing for Dad to do but it left so many like my husband home to be the little man of the house. My father-in-law was a career Marine.

[C. Dave Lien]

That was the year life was a little confusing. I had just finished my Ist year of
college. I had a quick tour of Hadye/Asbury district San Francsico spring of that year. Found myself in Vancouver, BC, Hope valley area BC in the summer. Met my wife. Got drafted. Establised a relationship with God. I did hear about man landing on the moon. But that could have been the great wild blackberry drink we made, I can't remember.:D