I Love dogs and cats, the great outdoors, and being politically involved, especially protecting our planet!!! I miss my dog, a beautiful Chocolate Lab, who I had to leave in Florida when I went into the hospital. I left him with a neighbor, who has disappeared off the face of the earth. Bear, my Lab, will be 15 years old this past July 6th, 2010. I Served in the USAF as a Military Working Dog Handler. Currently living Sheridan, WY. since Sept. 29, 2008, after spending a year and 2 months at a friends house, and 2 years at the Buffalo Apt., and 1 1/2 years at the Veterans Home (An assisted living facility the VA sent me to after my hospitalization for my brain tumor, and other neurological issues.) of WY. in Buffalo WY. Lived in Sheridan, WY. for years, then sold my house in 2002 and moved to Florida to be near family. Came back to WY July 2003 to enter VA Hospital in Sheridan, WY for physical, and mental health issues. I was diagnosed with some neurological problems which causes me to be fully disabled regarding work type activity. Oh well. I was born in Brooklyn NY, and I grew up on Long Island, NY. in Selden. Also attended college there, except for a brief stint at Wake Forest University. Most of my Family still lives back there or in Florida. I have 2 younger brothers, both married with some great kids. One is a Detective Sergeant in the Nassau County Police Department's Internal Affairs Division, and my other brother has his own financial planning company, and owns 2 health and holistic food stores. I have a sister, and she is currently getting divorced again, (And she recently unfriended me on FB because of a comment I made about Palin.) and has 9 year old triplets, Kyle, Matthew, and Nicholas. My other nephews, and niece are Jimmy, aged 16, LK, 19 years old, and his sister Nicole, 21 years old. I like Wyoming, and Buffalo was a quiet little town, population about 4,000. Sheridan has a population of around 15,000. I was involved in the Summer Theater Program here, sponsored by the Johnson County Arts and Humanities Council. Previous years I was a drunken ranch foreman, a sheepherder, and the town hero. In 2008 I played Slats, the useful, but not too bright sidekick of the dastardly evil villain. Go figure. I moved up to the big city of Sheridan, WY. In September of 2008. It is closer to the VA Hospital, and with the price of gas, and living on a fixed income, it is something I have to do. That's about it for now, so take care, and stay safe. And be careful out there!

" To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men." -Abe Lincoln-

"Live today like you will die tomorrow, and learn like you will live forever." - Gandhi -

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." -Teddy Roosevelt- "Citizenship in a Republic," Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

"The object of government is the welfare of the people." -Teddy Roosevelt-

Gandhi said, “The machineries of governments stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.”

General MacArthur said, “The Soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.”

"Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us." -Teddy Roosevelt- "The New Nationalism" speech, Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31, 1910

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else." "Teddy Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star", 149
May 7, 1918

"Most People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Abe Lincoln-

"This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in." -Teddy Roosevelt- Chicago, IL, June 17, 1912

"There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother." -Teddy Roosevelt- Pasadena, CA, May 8, 1903

College-
Suffolk County Community College '76
AA Degree Social Sciences

Stony Brook University '84
Political Science & Football

Wake Forest University '77
Economics
Political Science and History

High School
Newfield High School '73

Likes and Interests-
Activities-
Geocaching, Acting, Fishing, Shooting, Traveling, Environmental Activist, Political Activist, Watching Sports, Can't Really Play Anymore, Helping Folks, Sometimes Computers, World Wide Web, etc.

Interests-
Computers, Camping, Association football, Baseball, Hockey, Dogs and Cats, Of Course Family and Friends, Journalism, Photography, Painting, Computers

Music-
Eagles, Pink Floyd, Kansas, Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Beatles, Jackson Brown, Allman Brothers, The Marshall Tucker Band, Blondie, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Simply Jane, Poco, Lou Reed, Elton John, and much more.

Books-
The Magus, And Anything by John Fowles, Travels with charlie, On the Road, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey Novels, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelo Novels, William Faulkner Novels, John Grisham Novels

Movies-
Casablanca, Schindler's List, Crash, Fargo, Taxi Driver, Broken Trails, Paths of Glory, Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Glory, Breaker Morant, Gallipoli, Zulu, The Graduate, Rain Man and 10 more

Television-
The Amazing Race, Survivor, CSI, NY and Vegas, But Not Miami, House, Colbert Report, Official Law & Order Page, Bones, The Deadliest Catch, National Geographic Channel, Science Channel, Military Channel, and 11 more.