My Life      

Mom, do you want me to fix that for you?

            No! You break everything you touch.

Mother can I drop that off at the post office for you?

            Let me put a rubber band around those letters, I can’t trust you to do anything.

I’m going to run away from home.

            Can I help you pack?

No, I really mean it.

            Well then I’ll pack your lunch.

 You don’t love me anymore, I’m going to run out and get hit by a car.

            Here, let me open the door for you.

 I’ll bet you love him more than you do me.

            Only a little bit.

 I can change that light bulb for you mom.

            No, you’ll break it or fall off the stool and break your neck .

 Would you really send me to the children’s home?

            Yes if you don’t shut up and quit crying.

 You keep that up and I’ll give you something to cry about.

You just wait till your father gets home.

Go upstairs and get the razor strap you fathers going to need it when he gets home.

 Shut the door, were you born in a barn.

 Mom, can Bobby Jones sleep over tonight, his mother said he could.

            Well then I guess so.

Hello Mrs. Jones can Bobby sleep over at my house tonight?  My mother said it would be OK if it’s OK with you

               Life and Adventures:

My interest in other lands and sense of adventure was born in 1948,

when I was 10 years old.  I received a personal  letter from a teacher living in Wales UK. 

She was expressing thanks for a care package that my 5th grade class at

Baxter Elementary School in Canton, Ohio had sent.( we had all signed our names) 

The teacher was very classy to  address each of us separately.

  Where was Wales  where was England, where was Japan, where was Everywhere? 

 I was on my way to find out!

(following extrapolated from notes by Ronald L.Roshong (My Bro) 

  I grew up in Canton, Ohio during WWII and went to a lot of different schools.  My father went off to the war and served his time in the Navy in the Pacific.  Mom worked in an aircraft factory as a backup to a Riveter

 (the one who catches the rivets and seals them).

Life After High School:

I joined the U.S. Army Reserve 23 AUG 1956,SN# ER 13581188.  At the age

of 17,  I  attended drills with Co. "C", 458th Engr. Btn., 3rd Army

in Dover DE.

I began Basic training 06 OCT 1956 at Ft Jackson, SC, assigned to B Co.,

12th Btn., 1st Army.  At that time I was trained by Airborne cadre of the

101st Airborne Div.

The 101st Airborne Division was reactivated as a training unit at

Camp Breckinridge, Ky., in 1948 and again in 1950. It was reactivated

again in 1954 at Fort Jackson, S.C., and in March 1956, the 101st was

transferred, less personnel and equipment to Fort Campbell, Ky.,

to be reorganized as a combat division.

After Basic, I was assigned to The Engineer Center Regiment at Ft. Belvoir,

VA for training in MOS 811.10 (Construction Drafting).  I was at the school

from 06 JAN 1957 to  05 APR 1957

I was promoted to PFC on 01 MAY 1057.

Upon entering the University of Delaware, I was assigned to a file cabinet

in Indian Town Gap, PA, while taking ROTC .

I dropped out od the University of Delaware for two years  as a result of inattenion to detail.

With two friends, one a classmate, Jim Robinson,  we decided to take route #66 West to California. 

 It was the middle of January and we drove a red 1956 Buick convertible to the West Coast. 

 On the way we stopped by the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley and then on to Fresno for some skiing in Yosemite.

We split up and Jim and I went on to San Francisco, California.  After a brief stint as a bank teller trainee for Bank of America,

I stowed away with Jim  on a British Freightor, The SS Radnor for a three month voyage to Nagoya,  Japan.

After we were found out,  I was designated a Senior Ordinary Seaman in order to make enough pay to sustain myself,

once we arrived, in Nagoya.  We had many unique experiences, at  sea, that will be revealed, later, on another page .

In 1960 I joined the active duty Air Force, and served, for four years, as a Weather Observer  in;

 Illinois, Oklahoma and Alaska.

In 1976, after a 12 year break, I joined the Air Force Reserve . 

I transfered to the Air national Guard in 1979 and served until age 60.

In 1998 I was forced to retire.

God Bless America!  

My Military experience provided me wonderful travel experiences as follows:

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