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Baron Scroll Spring 2005 Page 11 |
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I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to live long enough to apologize for my past behavior to many of the people who have passed through my life. After Bitburg, I succeeded in failing at several colleges. Eventually I became a pawn of the federal government in several misadventures. During my careening career in the pinball game of life I was able to piss people off at the federal state and local levels of law enforcement. I now look back at a comedy of errors spanning over 32 years. I eventually finished college and received the dubious honor of a commission in the United States Army. |
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Thanks to Geri LAGISH Hilliard for putting Anne Marie in touch with Mark. We’d like to hear more from the Class of 1968! |
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I am on an 18 month extended tour and then retiring from both my civilian job and the army. In the meantime, we patrol the road space throughout Iraq & Kuwait and life is good. Keep us in your hearts. Another war here and there, including some high adventures in Central America, doing what I seem to do well. Somewhere along the way, I transitioned from the infantry into the military police. (I wanted to spend less time in the field). After 9-11 I volunteered to do some specialized training for federal forces and eventually ended up in Afghanistan to kill bad people. I transitioned to Kuwait, then with the liberation forces into Iraq on or about 19 March 04 and have been bouncing around there since. After a leave of about six months I returned to this place in September for my final tour. There was a choice of course, but I had a duty and all my fine young kids needed adult guidance, as it were. The photo is me, (the larger lizard), holding Henry the first back in 2003. He is a “Saliyah”. The green ones have a nasty, venomous, bite but I threatened to nip him in return so we coexisted just fine. |