![]() By the age of 65 I owned four different retail stores I sold all of them and retired at the age of 67. My brother and I were partners in business for a number of years in 1990 I became independently self-employed by owning my own retail business. At age 41 I was called of the Lord to enter the ministry and two years later my Church ordained me. Later I became the pastor of that same Church. Most of my adult life I earned a living for my wife, two sons and two foster daughters in retail business. I became a deacon in that church in my early thirties and would at times fill in for our pastor when he ask it of me. At about age forty I left the Baptist Church and became non-denominational. I grew up attending a small Southern Baptist country church. Again, because of the love in my heart, I was moved with compassion for our veterans. Instead of a heroes welcome they were jeered and booed. Then came the Vietnam War– I remember the shame I felt for our country because of the way so many treated our military men and women as they returned home. After working there for about one year I again returned home and became employed by my uncle in a TV and appliance store. After I was discharged I returned home and took a job in New Orleans, La. After serving three years in the Army I was discharged as a Specialist 2 nd class on August 4, 1957. Army Intelligence Center located in Baltimore, MD it was closed in 1970. I got home in early January of 1957. After a short leave home Shirley and I left for Fort Holabird, the then U. After my tour there was over I returned State Side I spent Christmas of 1956 enroot home. After arriving there I learned that it was also the Headquarters of all the Armed Forces of the Far East I spent the next 2 years there processing classified communications. After a short period of training at Eta Jima, Japan I was given orders to report to the 8 th Army headquarters at Camp Zama, Japan. We were given a choice of different schools overseas. Thankfully our orders were changed while waiting for transportation at Fort Lewis, WA. Shortly before Christmas of 1954 our battalion left for duty in Korea. My next training was at Fort Leonard Wood, MO learning how to disarm booby traps and land minds. While home on October 18th of 1954 I married my high school sweetheart, Shirley Jean Revette we have been married now for over 62 years. After finishing basic training I was given a short leave to return home. I spent the first 8 weeks in basic training at Camp Gordon, GA. These two wars in my early life touched me more deeply than I realized at the time.Īfter graduating from high school I joined the US Army in August of 1954. As a teenager I watched again as many went to serve in Korea and again, with a lump in my throat and an ache in my heart, I saw fathers and mothers weeping. ![]() My father began farming and my brothers and I began school at Seminary Attendance Center and I graduated there in 1954. I saw many mothers and fathers weep as they received news of their sons and daughters being wounded or killed in battle.Īs the war ended we moved back to Seminary, Mississippi in 1945. I watched as young men and women went off to war to preserve their countries freedom. As a young boy I was taught love of country and patriotism by example our nation was at war against those who wouldenslave the world. My father and mother moved to Mobile Alabama when I was about four years of age. This was in 1939. As I grew older I was nicknamed “Jake” by my friends and family. At birth I was named James Carroll Sanford. I was born about four miles northeast of Seminary, Mississippi on September 30, 1935, therefore I am 74 years of age. ![]()
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