I'm Part of Your Family

Well after so many years I still remember coming back and trying to tell my brothers about what I had done and seen. They were busy with their lives and didn't have much time. My mother which was the only one that really kept me focused on coming back said let it go and get on with your life put it in your past. Don't forget it but focus on the future now.

So I was off to City College and then the local University where I ended up getting my Life Teaching Degree in Secondary Education (Drama and Speech Comm.).

I had kept up my gymnastics all through my life leading up to Vietnam during and picked it up after competing at the University level. I taught high school for awhile but ended up starting Broadway Gymnastics School about 31 years ago and it is still growing.We have a staff of 50 employees and about 2,000 students per week.

I always remember the Soldiers that I spent so many hours, days and months with but only think about the positives mostly. But I appreciate my life and education. 

Like one of the other Soldiers that left a note on this website you need to remember all the good things that you learned in whatever part of the armed service that you were in. Consider me just part of your extended family, war just happened to be what brought all of us together.

Good Luck

(Submitted by Michael Cates)