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Date Posted: Sat, 11/23/02 8:29am
Author: Steve Russell
Subject: Re: College Visit
In reply to: bowdrill 's message, "Re: College Visit" on Fri, 11/22/02 9:24pm

Bow,

My daddy was a dropout drunken schizophrenic roughneck, who later learned construction work.

My mother was a dropout waitress who became a seamstress and finally taught herself bookkeeping.

I was raised by my maternal grandparents.

My grandmother never got as far as high school. She was abandoned as a young girl by her neer-do-well father (after her mother died) at the Sac & Fox Agency in Indian Territory where she learned not to be afraid of Indians and met my grandfather, a driller in the oil fields, Spanish-American War vet, and black sheep of a Scots-Irish clan in Sandusky, Ohio.

I quit school in the 9th grade. The Oklahoma schools did not serve Indian kids well and I had no place to hide.

The Vietnam War saved my ass.

Steve

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