from Sharecropper's Son to Tracking Missiles: Volume 1 - Softcover

Blackerby, Jerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1481226622 ISBN 13: 9781481226622

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

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Although born on a farm as a sharecropper’s son, I became fascinated with radios and electronics before television existed. I dreamed of the possibilities of space travel because of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Because of moving, I attended many different schools including three in the first grade and three my senior year. I met and married my wife within about three months after being in the Navy during the Korean War. I was one of the early people working downrange in the Bahamas Islands when we first began launching satellites from Cape Canaveral. For two-years my family lived a 3-room shack on Grand Bahama Island because the company did not support families. My wife had a major heart attack in 1989 that damaged her heart. The doctors said she would probably only live another 5-10 years. She lived almost 22 years after the heart attack, but it was a downhill trek. The last few years, I became her caregiver, which became 24/7 as her health declined.

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I was born a sharecropper's son during the Great Depression. After Dad had a heart attack, we left the farm and moved frequently as he tried to find jobs to support the family. One of my English teachers told me I should be a writer, but I wanted to be an electronics engineer. I became a technical writer and made a living writing technical manuals the rest of my life. As I told my children and grandchildren stories about places we had been and variety of things we had done, they kept telling me to 'write it down.' I did and created a website where they could read the stories about our lives. They kept hounding me to put them into a book, so I finally rewrote and reorganized some of the stories into a book.

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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1481226622
• ISBN 13: 9781481226622
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 204