Thornton Fractional South HS Lansing, Illinois
I enjoyed high school. I can't think of anyone I didn't like or appreciate for their own unique being. I was always into sports then (still am to a lesser degree). I don't cry when the White Sox lose now, but a SF 49er loss can ruin my day!

I didn't date in HS except for the senior prom, and I never did find out why she was mad at me the next day at the Beach Party! I sure wasn't ready for romantic relationships, then again maybe I'm still not! I only regret that I didn't have many close female friendships in HS like I did with the guys then and with women now! Of course I did have a secret crush on one young lady from 5th grade through HS. Only my sister knows! 

I left Lansing after HS never to return because my family moved to Minnesota that fall. Except for one short visit and I didn't keep in touch with anyone so I am ripe to hear some gossip about anyone!!

At TFS I was in Cross Country, Track and Swimming & played Baseball in the summer all 4 years. Actually I was the first in the class (along with Larry McDonald & John Martin) to win a Varsity Letter in the fall of my sophomore year. And I have always believed that I was the shortest in the class at the time including all the girls. I remember being quite aware then that girls should be allowed to have sports programs like the boys. After all if I could be successful! I was hesitant to wear the Varsity jacket for sometime because I didn't know how people would react, but when I finally did everyone was cool as far as I know!  

In my last mile race in HS I was finally able to break 5 minutes, just barely with a fast last quarter 4;59.  I did a 10:30? two mile to set school record.  Ok, it was the first year they had us run 2 mile track races.

I lived on Adams St right across from Coolidge Elementary School. Lansing is a vague memory. I just hung out in my immediate neighborhood and could be found playing baseball in the school field or running around the 1/2 mile school block! I only remember a few days when I left the HS before dark, because I was always participating in one sport or another at school. I would come home eat, watch TV & study.



I think the most scary moment I had during HS was when I was made one of the student alternates for our TFS team for a TV Academic program pitting HS against HS. I couldn't believe that I could be put on our team. I think it was based solely on grades! I just hoped that the Sidler twins & Cindy Zakes would not come down sick with any of the other alternates. I would have died to go on National TV and not even remember my Name! That happens when you are petrified! I had to study a lot because of my poor memory. I often joke that I had Alzheimer's from birth.

College
Cross country, Marathons, Dorm Life, Friends, Working/Living at Ricks, Kent State, Last of the Draftees.

Workplace
I work for myself. I have avoided working for corporations since 1985. I do organic gardening and handyman work for different families/friends. I live simple. I share my house with others so we all can live well but inexpensively in the very expensive SF Bay Area. I work for money only as much as I have to. I am a political activist trying to make this a better world than it is. I don't know what it is to be bored, so much needs to be done! I seem to get more radical with each passing year.

Military
I let myself get drafted so I could investigate what was happening in Vietnam myself. But they stopped the draft the next month and started withdrawing our troops. So I was sent to South Korea. Technically we were still at war there (and we still are even today), but it was like a constant R&R compared to Vietnam.

But I decided to investigate Korea instead. After 100's of letters to Congress and President Ford, the Korean government found out and demanded my removal. While the President was praising me for my kind advice on how to deal with the Korean dictator, the Army abruptly removed me from Korea stating I was a discredit and disgrace to the USA! Wool-la! a radical was born! And I have never stopped being one to this day!!

Funny, one of the Korean dissidents I was trying to protect, Kim Dae Jung, later became the President of Korea.

We were separated for 1 1/2 years after I was forced out of Korea, but I eventually did reunite and marry my Korean language teacher, Un Chong.

After she came to America, she got a job with the SF Community College District. From her first day & for nearly 1 1/2 years she was the victim of extreme sexual harassment. It is a long story. She filed a lawsuit that went on until 1986. She eventually became an activist like me, was involved with San Jose NOW and was one of the pioneer women that helped transform society to think seriously about sexual harassment of women. But her health was damaged from her experience, she had to go on Kidney Dialysis & she passed away in 1985. Our relationship of 11 years would rival the "Love Story".

During our marriage, I also had a more regular lifestyle in addition to some political activities, going to Heald Computer Technology College and working for 6 years at National Semiconductor.



After my wife died, the corrupt legal system declared that with her death all her pain & suffering was now mute and after over 6 years of legal work there were no longer any damages except lost wages. Her boss got off Scot free. Her lawyer quit! She was denied justice. I found myself unable to work and even able do activist work and I was in a funk for over a year! I slowly recovered and was involved briefly in the Printing business for about 2 years. I became involved with a group Injured Workers United & was working with another group preparing a major demonstration concerning US support for Central American dictatorships in August 1987.

Then on Sept 1,1987 Brian Wilson & two others were deliberately run over by a Weapons train at the Concord Naval weapons Station. I joined 10,000 others at a rally at the base that Sat and helped tear up the train tracks. I came back that Sunday to support a 24/7 fast and vigil by Nuremberg Actions. Eventually I quit my job and became a 24/7 peace activist and was the support house manager for the action. It was the most rewarding period of my life.

In March 1989, i went on a caravan to El Salvador with 50 others to bring aid & vehicles to the oppressed people there. (see the movie Salvador, I knew in the 1970s, the real life character Richard Boyle that James Woods plays). I fasted on the El Salvador border for 10 days when the US Ambassador called us communists and got the government to void our previously approved visas and deny us entry. Remember to be labeled a communist was a death sentence in El Salvador for the people living there. The Death squads were busy killing people who did community work!Eventually half of us were able to get in the country.

We lived & worked with a community group in San Salvador. Experienced & learned so many things. Also just how bad the US Government could be while the American people chose to look the other way! Went to Nicaragua for a couple weeks while it was under the Sandinista! Only place in Central America I (& the people)felt safe from the country's government. Nicaragua was the least militarized of all the countries including Mexico, despite the US well funded Contra terrorists!

I was the last to leave and I waited for the Death squad government to assume power after the rigged March elections, because I thought the US Government would want them to chill out on their killings as to limit the increasingly negative attention about them in the US. I was concerned about the Community we were helping!

I was wrong! I was on the bus back home not more than one day, when the group's coordinator was disappeared and never seen again! A young 24 year old women with several children, Tita Guzman disappeared one day after I had spoken to her before leaving! Another American women, Jean, working with Co-Madres learned that Tita had been taken to the Treasury Dept and tortured & killed. Jean had been arrested with other Co-Madre women. She was stripped naked, blindfolded and tied to a chair at the Treasury Dept. Once an American (American Embassy) came into the room. He had no communication with & gave no support to Jean while there, but Jean was released later. The Interrogators repeatedly asked Jean what her involvement with Tita was!

A daughter, Mari, of the woman I and several others lived with who was the family member active with the community group we helped while in El Salvador wrote me asking $to come to the US. Most of the community group members were either in jail or hiding by now! She was caught by US immigration and asked for more $to try again. In mid December 1989, I got a call from my wife to be Felicita that she, her sister Mari, brother & a cousin were in Guatemala and could I come & get them.

I flew with a friend who spoke Spanish to Guatemala City. The next two weeks were hair raising but we finally got to Tijuana. Coyotes took them across the border that night safely. Another Coyote offered to give my friend & I a ride into the US and to where everyone was being kept until I paid. We were stopped at he border because they thought our driver was running an illegal taxi service. I was caught with 4 El Salvador passports. I made up a story that I know they did not believe, but also said that the others i was with knew nothing! I was more worried that the Coyote knew I was good for the money! Finally, I said that I had made a mistake & that I didn't want to talk anymore without a lawyer. A few minutes later they let us all go, with no charges. I guess in those days immigration was more concerned about drug trafficking. That is not the end of this story. Immigration did catch 3 of them (Felicita was with me) but I just had to bail them out. They were eventually able to get refugee status.



I was married to Felicita in Feb 1990 and two years later we were able to bring my wife's 3 children to America. There are now a lot of relatives here on my wife's side. Some born here, some more immigrants.

In late 1989, I had bought the Nuremberg Action support house indirectly with the little money I received from my first wife's legal actions. The house is dedicated to her, Tita Guzman, all the victims of sexual harassment and all those oppressed by my government and others in violation of International laws & treaties!

I am divorced now, but still friends with my ex! The kids are all doing well with jobs or going to college. I am very active in my community of Bay Point and of course I am still a very involved activist.

I can be found on FaceBook.

I own & run the Bay Point Community org website.

I also have a website 911 Reward org where I am offering $100K reward to anyone who can convince me that our government didn't run the 9/11 attack on America. If you still believe the treacherous fairy tale that has costs the lives of millions and created a police state mentality through out the world, then I might have a house for you, just demonstrate how I am wrong. However, my website has links to more than enough information to convince an open mind that I am right! If I convince you, then I ask that you join the rest of us & help us take our government back from the real terrorists!