Richard Olson:  

Life After leaving Carmelite Jr. Sem, I finished High School at Bishop Bradley HS in Manchester NH. Went on to St. Anselm's college for a year in Pre-med and then to University of NH for a year as undeclared. Worked full time and commuted to college and so spent too much time at work and riding and not enough at classes. Ended up suspended and with Vietnam raging, I joined the Navy to avoid going to Vietnam. Wrong decision. After a couple of years of training and then duty in Coronado, CA, I ended up with duty on a traveling hotel and maintenance barge in the Mekong Delta supporting two River Patrol Units. No dangerous duty for me, but definitely for the guys that we supported. After Vietnam, came back to home and returned to school on the GI bill and did much better with my grades and so eventually graduated. Another very interesting time as a retunring veteran with most of my friends being kids who not only didn't believe in the war, but didn't believe in many of the values that had been important to me before I went to NAM. Around this time, I met my wife and after a year we married and after another year we had a child. I worked selling insurance for a while and then in 1979 I got hired by IBM, and have been happy...Expand for more