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Pam and I met in the summer of 1969 and married in the fall of 1973. Our best year was when we lived at a Missile Range, while I finished my last year with the Army! After that we moved around for a few years, before settling in the Black Hills.  Pam and I were blessed with four children... two boys and two girls. (Three of them are married now and so far we have about 5 grandchildren, but that keeps changing).

Although I met Pam right after my high school years ended we were only just friends of friends mostly. Our first actual date was Pam's Junior Prom. (It was arranged by a friend and classmate, who was dating and later married one of my sisters... Due to a snow storm the proms were now to be held on the same night! He was invited to both proms and I was sweet on Pam! The plan we cooked up was for him to go with my sister... Then I could try to get to know Pam better... A long story, but a good ending :-)

Our last real date was 3 years later, when I took her to the drive-in to see Love Story, and "kinda" proposed. (Another long and somewhat confusing story... you had to have been there).

It is hard to explain some things that happen in those days without first telling a bit more about the way things were. A number of things that happen in the late sixties presented a hard time for many in America... We were losing the war in Vietnam, the military were killing students at Kent State, the draft was killing the poor... the drugs at Woodstock were confusing the rest!

At this time Pam was doing her part, just as her mother had done during her war... attempting to support those in the military while keeping things running smooth on the homefront. (She wrote me every week without fail from the time we began dating) and wrote other soldiers who were friends of mine, mostly to support them during a lonely time.

I did not know her true worth or understand loyalty to an honorable cause at this time. I had grown up in a rich family and was quite cocky and arrogant. (I will probably be dead before most people reading this right now will ever find it... so I am being as honest and truthful as possible. Hopefully others in the future can learn from mistakes they did not even have to make).

About 1/3 of my graduating class joined the military and got messed up in a bad war... another 1/3 joined the National Guard, who were then forced to mess with the other third, that had gone into College or Canada. (Before I became an adult I found myself in all three of these categories).

I was a very naive and foolish youngster when I left the farm... A few months into College I found out about something called SEX! (She was new to it as well and immediately got pregnant... Due to problems with the in-laws and outlaws she ran away the following month to marry an old boyfriend, who was now far away in the military).

Once you are older it is easy to see many mistakes you have made in life, and  you also know what you should have done! At the time I was thinking I was very much in control of many things I actually did not even really understand. This is often referred to as part of the process of growing up. It is too bad I did not have the kind of information now found on the internet to learn from in those days... most people at the time did not even have access to books about such things! 

To this day I have no additional information needed to complete the story on this part of my life... I only saw this girl once after that. She was bitter, divorced, and living at home again. I was out of college, about to be drafted and had just volunteered for Vietnam, until then I did not even know she had a child. That is a story for another page...

Starting in 1967 Pam was "waiting tables" at a truckstop on Interstate 80. (There were three Pams working at Bossermans in Big Springs and truckers across America nick-named her Charlie at this time... only very well though of people rate a special name in life). But she still says her life was not interesting enough to be mentioned on the Internet! (She is as modest as I am forward). Her dad told me she also helped out on the farming and was very active doing all the things behind stage that people never get credit for. A good example of her loyalty could be seen later as well. During her time in college she always stopped by to visit with her grandparents on the way home each weekend... several times during a blizzard she risk her life to do this.

Once she even cost the government over a million dollars because she cared too much for me. (At a secret missile range during the cold war, about an hour before daylight)... she notice I had forgotten my lunch! The red "boogie" in the desert that scrubbed this mission was her little Mercury Cougar going out to Sea Station!

I could go on for hours about her many heroic deeds, but she requested that I should not do it here. (Only god knows, as it should be, according to her). I on the other hand, cannot stop talking...

I graduated college in Electronics, followed by three years in the Regular Army and three years in the Reserves! Although I liked the Black Hills best of all, by then I had lived in 28 states and 4 other countries!  (Maybe you have heard that pitch before... Join the Army- Go to exotic lands and meet interesting people... and kill them)!  I have another link here explaining more about how I even married one of the enemy for a while before she died...

After another year of schooling at Fort Leonard Wood, Ft. Knox, and Ft. Gordon I experienced many interesting things the next year fixing radar sites and communication equipment along the DMZ in Korea and a few other places. (For the record we were never in Laos, Cambodia, or North Korea... good thing I did not die after that sniper got me in the back... my family would have nothing to bury)! After I am finally dead this paragraph will enlarge to include what I did with General Gunnison and some information about my job as a CBR NCO for Camp Casey. (Then I might a purple heart or some other stupid medals... maybe even some VA benefits! As you can see I am not bitter or anything). This was followed by the next, and most interesting year. (I was part of a team flying drones around for the military to shoot missiles at). Drones are strange looking unmanned aircraft, often mistaken for UFO's at the time... Although I was still very young, I learned many things that still have an effect on me to this day.

Pam, in the meanwhile, was very good to me... She wrote every week, remaining loyal and dedicated, as always! She went to "Beauty School" to get her cosmetology license.  (She was working at "Fashions by Connie" when I married her, but she enjoyed working as a waitress more than anything... In fact all of the places she has been a waitress since that time still say she is the best they have ever seen at her job. I think it is because she is such a caring person).

 Pam is also very dedicated to her family, her church, and for that matter... just about anything she decides to do! I have never met anyone better at handling difficult challenges that life often presents to us. She seems to never run out of energy either!

(We both grew up around farming... and even a 100 plus hour work week was not uncommon to us). In fact our first real vacation was ten years after we married, when we took the kids to Disneyland.  

Above... our big vacation on the west coast, in 1982.

Below... Bryan's wedding, twenty years later.

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Last updated on:May 26, 2007