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Links to sites I enjoy for studying
the Bible, studying the existence of God, or comparing creation verses
evolution.
| Getting to know God | http://www.gospelcom.net/bttb/knowgod/ |
| Thru the Bible | http://www.ttb.org/ |
| Christian Audio Bible Study | http://www.godsword.pair.com/audio.htm |
| The Christian Research Institute | http://www.equip.org/ |
| Institute for Creation Research | http://www.icr.org/ |
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I served on the crew of the USS Sanctuary during the Vietnam War. We spent three months at a time in Da Nang Harbor or off the coast of Vietnam. We often cruised off China Beach. You may have seen the TV show by that name. Our ship was more like the TV show MASH. The Sanctuary was a hospital ship and had women nurses and Red Cross ladies aboard. We were one of two ships at the time to have women on board. The other hospital ship was the Repose. |
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The map is of the area around Da
Nang. The harbor is the one the Sanctuary often anchored in. The area
on the map marked Marble Mountain is behind the area called China Beach.
I was stationed on the Sanctuary from April 30 1970 until April of 1971. I left the states on my 25th birthday on a plane from Travis Air Force Base to the Philippines to board my ship in Subic Bay. That is at the city of Olongapo. You might have seen the PBS show on the Volcano that erupted near Clark Air Force Base. That is the same base that I flew to on the way to my ship. |
More Pages about Vietnam and
the Vietnam War.
| Vietnam Veteran's War Stories | http://www.war-stories.com/ |
| Vietnam on Line-Business, Travel, Culture, News | http://www.vietnamonline.net/ |
| What is Vietnam | http://www.cgtd.com/global/what_is_Vietnam.html |
| Vietnam Portfolio-Children | http://knossos.shu.edu/HyperNews/get/vp/children.html |
| Military | http://icarus.shu.edu/HyperNewsV/get/vp/military.html |
| Military Women in Vietnam | http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvetsnam.html |
| Vietnam Tourism | http://www.vietnamtourism.com/ |
| WAW Photo Index | http://www.prairienet.org/vvaw/main.html/photosindex.html |
| An Introduction to Vietnam | http://www.interknowledge.com/vietnam/index.html |
| Woman in Vietnam | http://www.illyria.com/vnwomen.html |
More Pages about the Philippines
More pages of the Military
| Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 164 | http://www.usmo.com/~karefre/watson.htm |
| U.S. PACIFIC FLEET | http://www.surfpac.navy.mil/ |
| Navy Seabee Veterans | http://www.nsva.org/guestbook/guestbook.html |
| U. S. Navy Patrol Squadrons | http://www.vpnavy.com/vp102.html |
| AH-17 USS Sanctuary | http://metalab.unc.edu/hyperwar/USN/ships/AH/AH-17_Sanctuary.html |
| Marine Finder | http://www.thegunnyshack.com/vbpro/Marine/entries.html |
| Veteran's find a friend | http://www.veterans-center.com/find_a_friend.htm |
| Retired Activities Office, Subic Bay Philippines | http://www.hvisions.com/rao/ |
Up until about 2 years ago I taught mathematics for the Memphis
City Schools. The first 6 weeks I taught algebra at Northside High
School. Then I was transferred to Fairley High School where I taught geometry
and algebra. The second year I transferred to Trezevent Career Academy
where I taught science, biology, and chemistry. But my real love
is to use and teach technology.
For the two years previous to the above I taught Computer Service at the Memphis Job Corps center. I would recommend this for young people who want to learn an occupation as well as to get a GED. They have many contacts and can have young people working at actual job sites before they even complete the program. The Job Corps here in Memphis not only offered training in Computer Service, but Electronic Assembly, Fork Lift driving, and many areas in medical occupations.
For nearly ten years I taught Electronic Technology at Coahoma Community College in Clarksdale, Mississippi. This is in the heart of the Mississippi on highway 61, where the Blues go started. There is a Blues Museum. I use to go to Walton's Barber Shop there. Wade Walton had played in a Blues band. I have seen him on travel shows about the Delta on the Travel Channel.
For the two years between the times I taught Electronics and the time I taught Computer Service I worked as a temporary at several companies as a computer technician. I enjoyed this very much. Not only did I learn a lot about computers, but also on service calls all over the Memphis Area I got to see a variety of places and meet many people.
To be a teacher you must be a student. In fact to work in technology or computers you always will be learning new things. My original undergraduate work I did at Morris Harvey College in Charleston, West Virginia and West Virginia Institute of Technology in Montgomery, West Virginia. Morris Harvey College is now the University of Charleston. Morris Harvey College was a small private school loosely associated with the Methodist Church. I took pre-engineering there came back there to receive my bachelor of science in physics. I loved that college. I think I knew just about everyone that worked there including the maintenance people. I held down two part-time positions at the college to help earn a little extra cash. I worked in the College library and was very good at it. What I really enjoyed was my other position. I became the projectionist in the schools auditorium. They showed movies most every weekend. This was regular movie theater equipment, just like what was used in movie theaters and drive-ins at the time. I became so good at it that during the summers I volunteered to work at the local driven in my hometown of Weirton, West Virginia. I was not paid for they had a projectionist who had learned his trade while in the military. He was a stickler for doing it just right. I usually just ran the first movie of the evening for I had a full time day job at the Weirton Steel Company where my dad worked. This was a summer job to help pay my college expenses.
The first summer before college I worked in the labor gang where our supervisor happened to be the man who had been my Boy Scout leader, Tom McCartney. Other students I new also worked there. We all had attended high school at Weir High. While in High School I did not only take College Prep during the day, but once a night I attended vocational training in electricity and electronics at the Vo-Tech at the high school. This was offered through the Weirton Steel Company.
More pages on West Virginia and
Weirton
| Weirton's Lions Club | http://www.wvlions29-l.org/wvlions29/Weirton.htm |
| Brooke High School (Weirton is in 2 counties) | HTTP://168.216.219.18/ |
| Map, Photos, and Info on Weirton | http://168.216.219.18/brk-cty/weirton/weirton.htm |
| Office of Technology-W. Va. Education | http://129.71.2.16/ |
| West Virginia News Papers | http://www.50states.com/news/westva.htm |
| Weirton Daily Times/The Herald-Star | http://www.hsconnect.com/ |
At the West Virginia Institute of Technology I got even more into photography. After taking color slides of a college play using available light I was hired to photograph all the plays, concerts, and even the cheerleaders and majorettes.
In the Navy not only did I take color slides but I shot super eight movie film. I was experimenting with the fastest film I could obtain at the time. Most film speeds of 180 ASA and occasionally 400 ASA in black and white. This was mostly in Vietnam and the Philippines. I took more pictures on R& R in Australia.
Through out the years I did photo directories for churches I was attending. I am doing that at the present time for Bailey Station Church of Christ in Collierville. When I taught at Coahoma Community College in Clarksdale, Mississippi I decided to do some serious photography. I sold photos to most the students and teachers. I also did photos for the College President and some for the year book. The college also had me visit industry in the area taking pictures of people working at various jobs in the area.
October of 2001 I decided to do photography as a professional.
I started my own business. I have photographed weddings, anniversaries,
parties, groups, children, families, civic activities, and have done photography
for newspapers, maps, and lately for my own calendar of which I sold about
50. Not only do I shoot 35 mm, but digital, and digital video.
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Hey Dad I am ready to work of the car next.
Taken at the Children's Museum in Memphis when Abby was about two years old. |
| Granddaughters Abby & Paige
Christmas 1999 |
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Ice skaters--Andy William's theater
Branson, Missouri |
| Butterfly in park in Missouri |  |
To see more of my favorite photos and other of the granddaughters go to:
http://www.cartogra.com/home/viewownerdir.asp?owner_id=65608&owner=davidalbert
God’s Spirit came up on me and I feared His judgment. I knew I was following the way of sin and death. And I said unto the Lord, “I am so ashamed, please forgive me of my sins.” After much sorrow, I became filled with God’s love and had the assurance that even my sins were forgiven. Now I was the happiest person in the entire universe. Nothing else mattered but to do God’s will.But as Jonah, I was a fool. I bathed in the joy and feeling of being on top of the world but I was a visitor. I did not want the responsibility of doing God’s work. Not that I did not want to do it, but I was afraid to do what I knew I should do. So I fled like Jonah. I took the ship “The Easy Way Out.” I became indifferent and like Jonah, God sent a storm, a storm of complete despair and darkness. I lost hope, faith, and seemed to be to be sinking. The whale of disbelief swallowed me up. However I kept praying to God.
Now I have been thrown up to safety and I have learned to be patient, to wait on God’s guidance, and to always keep mine eyes on my goal-Jesus Christ. I pray that I may be more than just a visitor when I am needed to do God’s work.I plan to add more writings as I have time.
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