Two for You, One for Me

A mother and son wander aimlessly in the late 1920s through Arizona and Mexico border-town poverty; homeless, with no life direction. In the early 1930s the son, through life¿s happenstance, discovers a better way that people can live and exist in a loving family. Ultimately, in 1937, the state of Arizona reunites him with extended family living in Tucson. This time period and these locations provide the beginning settings for a memoir that takes the reader through this child¿s transition from young boyhood surviving on the streets, into early manhood; to a pre-WW ll Army enlistee; a soldier stationed in Seattle, Washington, helping his antiaircraft contingent defend Boeing¿s B-17 bomber production; and then a husband and father before going overseas for the invasion of Japan. After war¿s end he becomes a new civilian living and working for Seattle City Light, and with his wife, happily raising a family and making a life in the Puget Sound area. When a family friend continues to encourage him to make a change to the white collar profession of selling real estate, he succumbs and somewhat unknowingly chooses the opportunity. Unfortunately, opportunities can be a wolf in sheep¿s clothing, as his life changing choices take him and his family down unfamiliar roads and social influences that alter the future course of all of the family¿s lives.