User:Rga7579

Adult life started at age 20 on October 8, 1942 when I enlisted into the Army Air Corps, graduating from Luke Field, AZ, eventually being deployed to Europe with the 8th Air Force, 27th Photo Group. Returned to civilian life on June 30, 1946. My GI Bill gave me 48 months of college, and in 1951 was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to the Universite de Poitiers,in France 1951-1952. I met my wife at a 5-month College Training Detachment at Jamestown College in North Dakota, in 1943. We were married a few months before my deployment to Europe. Death did us part on March l9, 2008, after 63 wonderful years. We both earned graduate degrees: Alice, in Public Health from NYU and I, in French, and Child Guidance from Columbia University in New York. We were both camping/ travel freeks: Europe, the (then)Soviet Union, British Columbia,(both countries in VW camper), Kenya, China, Mexico, the Grand Canyon--four descents over four years to Phantom Ranch. Now I live on kindness of aides, books on any kind of history, the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, AND-- the three great German "B's": Bach, Beethoven, Brahms.