Marshalls Mainstream Perspectives
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A LENSING WINDOW INTO MY WORLD
About me
The trip so far and some of the interesting things I remember from the trip.
I was very little and in an establishment sitting on a giant's knee. My parents were enjoying themselves eating, drinking, and socializing with everyone including the giant. They kept calling him Norm. I found out later that it was Clint Walker.
Still very young I recall the jets from a nearby military base going overhead and breaking the sound barrier just for fun.
Watching the engineers at Rocketdyne test the F-1 engines in Santa Susana Mountains; the Saturn 5 rocket motors sent a flame a hundred feet in the air.
Neil Armstrong stepped and walked on the moon and we watched it in black and white.
At Spahn ranch we rode horses and were escorted by Charlie Manson's girls before they reacted to Helter Skelter.
After moving to Pennsylvania I learned the differences in states educational systems and graduated with an honors level diploma.
I didn’t experience the racism that those in large urban populations did because we were mostly monochromatic living on the edge of the Allegany Forest.
After moving to get work in the west coast wood products industry I did experience homelessness, prejudice, and poverty. I saw the Peace Train as it made its last pass through the United States.
In the U.S. Navy I saw much of the world. From public executions in Somalia, to enforced compliance to the laws in Singapore, to similar freedoms in Australia allowing an attempted paint bombing of my ship and the breaking of the ANSUS pact outside of New Zealand, to the breaking and entering of a man’s home in the Philippines by OPM to recover $20 dollars at a U.S. sailors word, to extreme capitalism in Bangkok and Hong Kong. I saw first hand people moving across the open landscape after illegally crossing the U.S. border.
Finding employment at a major U.S. Chip manufacturer after earning an associates degree was tremendous. From development of the 486 to the Intel® Core™ chips there was so much to learn.
Then Retirement and a Blog because I have learned to see that there are different views other than that of my limited vision; although the left and right have extremes those extremes are useless and divide the country.
