“I pull big boats with my truck. I was once ground support chief for the Blue Angels in Pensacola. I have done pretty good for a country boy from West Virginia. I went into the Navy at age 15. It was either go into the coal mines or the military. I am 83 years old, born in 1936. My oldest brother served in the Army when Patton was in charge. There were 14 kids. I never worked in the coal mines, but I played in them. My father worked in the coal mine at night and didn’t sleep much during the day. He was killed in a gas explosion in 1953. They couldn’t get anyone out, they just sealed the mine off and made a monument out of the mountain. That is why I went into the Navy. I was in for 30 years and went around the world twice. Three tours of duty in Vietnam. I did riverboat patrol. After I retired, I went to work for the board of education. I worked maintenance for the new high school in Foley for 20 years.