DOUG'S STORY
After spending time in Europe while in the military, I came back to America, got married, and started building a family of my own. Twenty six years later, my wife and I live on two acres in a cozy house surrounded mostly by woods and pasture. We have been home-educators from the start and along with our nine children, tend a garden and raise chickens for eggs. Our oldest is now beginning a new family of his own...
My Life Is an Adventure That Keeps Getting Better
As soon as I was seventeen, I enlisted in the Air Force to see the world. I was ready to push myself to go farther than I had every gone before and this decision changed my life forever.
I knew that if I worked hard and applied myself, I could go far. Before enlisting, I had joined the US Civil Air Patrol at 15 and eventually received the "Billy Mitchel Award" (similar to being an "Eagle Scout", for those Boy Scouts out there.) This helped me later as I was allowed to graduate Basic Training in half the time. I then finished at the top of my class as Honor Graduate in Avionics Tech School.
Ready now with the skills I needed to succeed, I hit the deck running. When an opportunity to transfer to Italy came, I jumped on it. I got to see Europe, and learned some Italian along the way too.
It was then that a certain Italian girl convinced me it was time for another change... I was a civilian again, but five years wiser... and ready for a new stage of personal growth. We married and eventually I got a job in database programming. It was at this time that I also went back to school and received my bachelor's degree.
My subsequent life as a husband and father of nine has been illuminating, to say the least. I talk more about the things I've learned along the way in my Blog.
