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Brady Shoemaker was born in Denver Colorado, March 7, 1952. The family moved to Sisters Oregon a year later, where brother Ray Shoemaker was born. About a year after that Erma and Phil Shoemaker moved the boys to Bend Oregon about 30 miles down the road. Carl Shoemaker was born in 1954. Eight years later, Ana Lin Shoemaker became the first baby of Bend on Jan. 1, 1962.

Brady joined the Air Force in 1971, and served in Thailand, where he met his first wife, and John Shoemaker was born in 1974, in Nakon Panom Thailand. Brady later joined the Army as a broadcast journalist from 1982 to 2000, working overseas in Korea, Japan, Italy, Saudi Arabia and Germany.

He set foot again on American soil less than a month before 9/11/2001. Brady worked part time in radio news for about six years before landing a job as a print journalist at the Lebanon Daily Record in Lebanon Mo.