I left my childhood home at age 17 and enlisted in the Air Force. Those were probably some of the best years of my life. I married my wife, had two kids while stationed at March Air Force Base, California for almost five years, then 2 ½ years in the Air National Guard, we moved to Cedar Hill, Texas, then after a short time to North Richland Hills Texas. We moved back to Cedar Hill where most of these poems originated. I started working at Bell Helicopter in 1967, retired in 2001. We have lived in Midlothian Texas for the past 40+ years. We raised two boys, two grandboys and now we have the pleasure of having our great granddaughter living with us. She is such a joy to this old man,