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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 5396612, member: 14873&quot;]I just enjoyed reading this entire thread. What a great community we have here! So many fascinating interests, accomplishments and pursuits.</p><p><br /></p><p>My own original post was pathetically brief and I would like to add the following:</p><p><br /></p><p>I was born and grew up in Lancashire, northern England (right in the heart of first-fourth century Romano/British territory) in 1929. A couple of months after I was born the Stock Market crashed and the Great Depression began - it wasn’t my fault!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I spent quite a bit of my childhood prowling the Lancashire/Yorkshire moors looking for ancient artifacts - never found anything of significance.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1950 I emigrated to the United States (Massachusetts). The Korean War broke out in June of that year and I ended up in the United States Air Force, serving for twenty two years (Korea and Vietnam) and raising an extended family - I now have my wife, Beverly, four children, nine grandchildren and eight great - grandchildren. I started collecting Ancient coins in earnest in 1950, mostly Julio - Claudian bronzes - very little has changed in that respect.</p><p><br /></p><p>After I retired from the USAF I was eventually employed as an Industrial Engineer with both the Gates Learjet Corporation and The Allied Signal Corporation here in Tucson.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wanted to attach a family photo in order to brighten up this post - but I couldn’t find anything that wasn’t framed - I did come across this one that the youngsters in the family like:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1232573[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I was stationed at George AFB, California in the early1960s. Roy Rogers (King of the Cowboys) had just bought the Apple Valley Inn and was building his Museum in nearby Victorville. The US military decided to build a USO in Victorville - I was chosen to represent George AFB and Roy Rogers represented the Civilian Community at the parade and ribbon cutting ceremony for the Grand Opening. After all that, Roy sat my daughters on his knees and asked a press photographer to take this photo for me. Roy was a gracious and personable man - he wasn’t exactly what I would call a friend, but we did exchange greetings whenever we met thereafter (I lived on the same remote street as he did - Thunderbird Rd in Apple Valley next to the landing strip.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Caveat: my memory is very poor these days: the dates may be off slightly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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