[RKDinOKC]

While waiting for my turn in surgery talked with my brother about my earliest memories. When we moved to OKC he was a Senior in HS. We lived in the rent house for 1-1/2 years then moved to the house my parents bought and lived in 35 years. I was kind of fuzzy on when we moved from 2 bedroom rent house and our 3 bedroom house. He said he went to Marine boot camp when we lived in the rent house. When he got out he took his leave to find we had moved. And also that he had to go to Gallup NM for visit my parent because they had gone out there for my nieces birth. Their first grandkid.

He did not remember that my Grandmother was in Gallup with us. Says his memory is a little vague as it was a stressful time for him. He was a senior in HS and working a lot at a local gas station. As I understand it he was the character in HS like Fonzi. It was 1960 and he wore jeans, t-shirt and leather jacket because of the wrench monkey job when everyone else in school was wearing button down shirts and chinos. He joined the Marines right out of HS because he had to get married and saw it as a better way to support a family.

When my brother started dating his wife he didn't know her father was the founder of the company my Dad worked for. Remember overhearing my Mom telling someone about his girlfriend telling her that she was going to marry my brother no matter what it took. She was a sophmore when they got married and she did not finish school. Instead she got a GED. Kinda surprised they stayed married by today's standards.

It may have made a difference that she had a lot of money because even then she had stock in her Dad's company. My brother refused to use her money. All the way up to and including today. Their houses, cars, etc were all his money. He also bought stock when he could and is now the major stock holder and Chairman of the board. She is worth a huge sum of money, but it doesn't matter because they never spend any of it. I've always considered their money as money with strings.