Gil

I want to start putting stuff about Gil's life on the blog so you sons and daughters will get to know more about his growing up years. He went to school in Evansville, Indiana. He did well and got bored real easy. So he did stuff like clubs and sports to fill the extra hours. He played the drums in the elementary school band. In high school, he played in all the different sports. In football, which was his favorite, he played rushing guard. His first job was a bus boy at the dinner counter in Walgreens. Then they put him in charge of salads and he mopped and swept the floor. His family moved from Evansville to St Louis, Missouri. From there his family moved to Florida and Gil joined the Air Force. I will write more about him later. He said he never had any other girlfriends besides Nancy and then after Nancy, he married a disabled girl Sony. In about 3 years, they got a divorce. After Eddie was killed, Gil was taking care of Wayne. Me, Eddie Jr, Sheila and Debbie were a family. We decided to be together and help each other make some sense out of life. We helped each other. We got married at Wright Patterson AFB chapel. Mary Kay Budge was my maid of honor and Debbie and Sheila were my brides' maids and Eddie Jr gave me away. In order for everyone to be enrolled in school in Florida for August, we moved back to Florida to start off the new school year. Gil had his house on Carribbean which was being rented . He got the house back and we moved in to start our new lives. It took awhile for me and Eddie Jr , Sheila and Debbie to adjust to the death of Eddie. It was a hard time. I transferred my job from Dayton, Ohio and started to work right away. Gil retired from the Air Force and decided to start his own machine shop. Gil and Eddie were best friends and were together all their careers at Patrick AFB and Wright Patterson AFB. They flew with the same group of men and planes most of their careers testing and developing and working with the ARIA group. More later.