User:StephenCharest

Stephen Charest, retired US Air Force officer, former attorney, and polyglot. Born in Clinton, NC on Oct. 8, 1953 to a second-generation French Canadian father and a mother from a "good quality" North Carolina family of Welsh ancestry. Grew up largely in North Carolina but spent his high school years in Minnesota and Pennsylvania. Served USAF Jan 72 - Feb 95, retiring with the rank of Captain. Attended University of Nebraska, graduating with BA in German 1986 and JD 1998. Admitted to the bar 1998, voluntarily resigned from bar December 2006 after a disagreement with a client.

Studied Chinese, German, Czech, and Polish. Self-taught in Spanish, Russian, French, Classical Hebrew, and Welsh.

Despite some claims by both friends and enemies, he is pretty sure he is not the Comte de Saint-Germaine, nor has he ever been Aleister Crowley, Eliphas Levi, Catherine the Great, or anyone else of note in a previous life. He does have evidence that in a past life he shoveled horse manure for a small stable in a remote, inconsequential village somewhere between Lisbon and Petropavlovsk.

Married to Margy Ryan of Omaha, NE. Currently residing in Lincoln, NE.