I Have These Pictures in My Mind

Don was born in a little river town—Red Wing, Minnesota. Using humor, he tells us how grade school, one room in rural Wisconsin, made him know he had to escape. Victory at Sea gave him a glimpse at something that appeared more interesting than cutting up the sides of a cow to make a shoe. Two years of active duty in the Naval Reserves couldn’t be that bad. He soon learned that an E-1 is lower than whale poop and wondered, How the hell does 56,000 tons of USS Saratoga float?” Don ended up joining the real Navy, teaching air traffic control. After twenty years, no months, and eleven days he retired as an E-7 chief petty officer and was going home. Don was one of those godlike” creatures that he had been in mortal fear of as that lowly E-1.Schliep, Donald F. is the author of 'I Have These Pictures in My Mind ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781413742237 and ISBN 1413742238.