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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Writer & Hiker |
| Location | Silver City, New Mexico, United States |
| Introduction | Born a Baby Boomer. Father served in Europe, Battle of the Bulge; Aachen; Liberation of Ordruf Concentration Camp; Graduated from High School & Joined Army, 1965. Honorably served as an Infantryman in South Korea, then South Vietnam, wounded in South Vietnam, 1966, Combat Infantry Badge; Purple Heart; Korean Service Medal; Good Conduct Medal; Vietnamese Service Medal; Sharpshooter Badge, M-14; assistant recoilless rifle gunner; M-60 Machine Gunner; discharged, 1968. Indiana University; University of Oregon; Sinclair Community College. B.S. Political Science, U of O; MFA, Creative Writign, U of O; Alcohol and Drug Counselor, Ohio, Sinclair Community College. 1 son; three step children (2 step sons, 1 step daughter). Beautiful wife. Wonderful person. Happy, sober and clean w/27 & 30 respectively. |
| Interests | Films. Foreign Films are often among my favorites; the purchase & use of the ROKU connection to our cable allows us to instantly que free movies from NETFLIX, and, buy available films on Amazon.com; updates daily on areas of geopolitical interest, via membership in STRATFOR, an authoritative "intelligence" digest on line. |
| Favorite movies | Just Westerns, not in order: 1. Unforgiven; 2. Jeremiah Johnson; 3. Little Big Man; 4. The Hired Hand; 5. The Horse Soldiers; 6. Ulzana's Raid; 7. The Wild Bunch; 8. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid; 9. Missouri Breaks; 10. The Horse Soldiers |
| Favorite music | Always, Grateful Dead. Quicksilver Messenger Service. Jefferson Airplane/Starship. Modern "Spache Music" composers. |
| Favorite books | Hemingway: For Whom The Bells Toll; A Moveable Feast; The Sun Also Rises; Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev; John Le Carre novels, re: fiction. |
If you could peer far enough into the night sky, you'd see a star in any direction you looked. When would you sleep?
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