 I was born in Greenville, South Carolina. As my father said, at the young age of six months, I crawled over to Spartanburg, and I was raised in the Spartanburg area. And was there a family history of service in your family? Yes, my father, he served in World War II from 37 to 46. All my uncles were all in the military. So I always knew I had dyslexia really bad. I always knew I was going to go to the military. I just didn't know when. Of course, when Vietnam came up,