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Cindy Job made her debut on this day
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She was 4-years-old, remembers getting first television
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Watched the Little Rock Nine being escorted into school on t.v.,
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remembers national mourning and disbelief
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Her father got a new job there
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Graduated from Paschal High and got a job the next week, her father said it was unnecessary for girls to go to college.
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She was 19 yrs old, Dad was a Marine, just returned home from Vietnam.
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She had my sister a couple of months before my dad transferred to the Army and went back to Vietnam for his third tour in the 82nd Airborne.
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Dad had serious PTSD, no support from community, no jobs for vets. "He never really returned from Vietnam"
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Stationed in Vicenza, Italy for 3 years. Where I started school.
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Described serious inflation problems, President Carter in office, they were surprised by cost of living, base housing was their option.
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She went back to work and college, family of 5 now, she wanted a professional career. She graduated with BA in Business.
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She was offered a management position, Dad was retiring from Army, we moved on my 11th birthday.
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Mom divorced my dad, PTSD got the best of him, he was never really treated, was never again the same man she married. Our family dispersed, everyone went their separate ways.
