Maybe the big takeaway you should get from this is that we had plans -- but we didn't know how well they were going to work. This was all new; the app...oved formula had most of the bugs shaken out of it, but just collecting EVERYBODY was a new wrinkle. Using Fleet Auxiliary personnel was also a new wrinkle; as I reminded them in briefings, "We're relying on history, here. People expect Marines at pickups. They expect you to be bigger, stronger and faster than they are, and they expect you to put. Sandy excelled in drama and led the debating team. She went to state when she was a senior and won the contest. Jimmy played shortstop and was clean-up batter. He broke the school record for runs batted in two years in a row. I would guess the record that he made as a junior and broke himself in his senior year would stand for years. He wasn't interested in making a career as a sports figure. He didn't say why.Sandy was valedictorian when she graduated. Jimmy had an average in the top seven. . we were probably the only kids really capable of understanding each other's troubles. In time, we might have been able to work out an armed truce and maybe learn to respect each other, but my own history of troublemaking was already legendary. After I was immediately packed off and reassigned to JROTC instead of PE for the remainder of High School our paths didn't cross again until much later (my final day of school) and with some tragedy, not to mention drama.At first I didn't like JROTC, or. We were on a hill, overlooking the lake we went to the day we met. I could look across the lake and see where we had our first meal together and conceived our children from our living room and the terrace off our master bedroom suite.When we found out that she was going to have triplets, I told Doctor I was going to stop working when she reached 8 months. We'd see how it went, but I was going to take at least one month after the birth off. I had two reasons. I knew I wasn't going to be any good.