Just A Country Boy
The Stories of My Life
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About the Book
Come ride with me as a just barely teenager in deep South Texas doing a little cowboy work. Before the war, I mean WWII, before we grew up and had to make a living.
Share my apprehensions as my sons went to Viet Nam. I have two sons, and each went to Viet Nam twice, and they returned twice. They brought home medals, and the scars that go with them.
Play with my dogs, the hobby that I return to time after time. Fish in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area of Louisiana.
I will share with you the many miles I have traveled over the highways of Texas. And the months I spent in the Pacific Theater of operations on the USS Proteus, (AS 19). The Proteus was one of the first ships to enter Tokyo Bay, and we stayed sixty days.
After the war I returned to work at southwestern Bell Telephone Co. and completed 40 years with them. I have a few stories about what happened at 302 West Mayfield, San Antonio, Tx. I spent the last thirty three years of my telephone career in that building. And I came to know it pretty good. From the floor drains in the basement to the roof, I knew it all.
I watched as the building was enlarged to house the Electronic Switching System, (ESS). And I watched as what had been my livelihood for more than thirty years went out the window as scrap metal.
I jump around a lot in this book, just as I have jumped around in my life. Stay with me for the journey. I think you will enjoy it. Of course it is not over yet, not by a long shot.
There is another plot swirling in my brain, it will be fiction. Perhaps tearing loose from the truth will be another learning experience.
About the Author
Hello folks. I am 78 years old and still going strong. I learned to type my last year in high School. That was in Dimmit County, Texas. I moved to San Antonio right out of school and except for my twenty five months in the Sub. Navy during WWII I have lived here ever since. My typing came in handy many times and my first book was published in the year 2000. I have broken or worn out three printers. And I am still at it.