I was a firefighter with the Kenosha Fire Department in Wisconsin for 28 years and also taught at Gateway Technical College in the Fire Science program for 25 years.
I am involved with several Veterans groups in the area. I was a guardian for two of my wife's uncles who served in WWII on the 15 Sep 2012.
My wife and I did volunteer work for Nash elementary school one to two days a week in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Moved to Seattle, Wa area to be near our grandchildren in 2015.
Description On 23 January 1968 North Korean patrol boats supported by two Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 fighters captured the USS Pueblo northeast of the North Korean island of Ung-do. The seizure of the Pueblo led to President Lyndon Johnson ordering a show of force with a massive deployment of U.S. air and navy assets to Korea. The airlift and deployment of 200+ aircraft was code named Operation Combat Fox while the deployment of six aircraft carriers plus support vessels was code named Operation Formation Star.[3] The operations were supported by the partial mobilization of reservists for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis. CIA A-12 Oxcart reconnaissance overflights over North Korea were used to monitor a feared retaliatory mobilization of North Korean forces and when these flights revealed no mobilization or large scale deployments by North Korean forces, Operation Combat Fox forces were stood down.