Alabama Strongwood Log Homes

I met my wife, Jackie, thirty days before going on leave for Vietnam.  Yep, that was only 720 hours before going into combat.  I was from Wisconsin and so I never ever planning to return to Ft. Benning, Georgia again. (Ft. Benning, Georgia is where we met.)  Well story-book romances do happen.  I met Jackie at a party I put together of for a number of young officers heading to Vietnam.  It was a real Hawaiian Luau complete with a pig roasted over an open spit.   By our third date (that was Friday -party day-, Saturday, Sunday)  we knew it was going to fast.  I wanted to stop seeing Jackie but after some tears and a Kay-Sera-Sera discussion we decide to let fate take a hand.  Well, we were engaged within 30 days and had plans to be married right when I got back from Vietnam.  I was 20 and Jackie was 19.  A lot younger than we might want our kids to be thinking of marriage.   Well I was in Vietnam for 13 months and came back.  We were married within a week of my return.  That was 1969.  Since then we have been poor and lived well.  We have had our ups and downs.  We have raised two children.  Our daughter, a accountant and beautiful girl, is getting married in 15 days at Harpoon Harry’s on Panama City Beach.  Our son, a fine young man and a IT Systems Administrator, lives in Japan with his wife, Masae.  He had serverd four years in the US Navy and saw a lot of the world including the waters off the coast of Iraq and Iran.  Our family has traveled to over 30 countries and lived and worked in the USA, Bahrain, Panama, Japan, and England. My wife and I are still happily married and still say “I love you” every day to each other.  So what does this have to do with log homes?  Simple, I don’t do anything half way.  We review our options and move forward.  We think globally and act locally.  We put our hearts and souls into everything we do. 

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