I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's been nobody who stays in more communication and listens to veterans more than I do.
I'm from the 'less is more' school. I had to be in the 'more is more' zone with 'Dallas Buyers Club', so I was out of my comfort zone, but I had to trust that.
I was a military brat; we moved all around.
I had better cellular coverage on a ship in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea than I have in many parts of Silicon Valley.
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.
My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.
For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.
I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew up on both coasts and in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in Rockville, Maryland, and have had a great time doing it.
Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.
The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland.