Posted on 03/14/2005 9:38:31 PM PST by CHARLITE
Jimmy Hartner was shipped off to Viet Nam when he was 21.
He enlisted in the Army in 1968, and managed to get into an area where he could make use of his considerable skills — a near genius ability to design, build and repair anything mechanical or electronic.
His primary job was to keep electronic devices in excellent working order, but the Army also certified him as an expert marksman. One of his duties was to protect ammunition dumps at night, and such duty resulted in frequent fire fights with the Viet Cong. Jimmy was put in the position of kill or be killed, and did what he had to do to survive.
Many men were forever changed after the things they'd witnessed in Viet Nam, but Jimmy never was. When he returned he dove right into his new life. He enrolled in a one-year course in a technical college, graduated tops in his class and took a job with a big retail firm.
He bought an old farmhouse, a mess of a place, and began rebuilding. That's how Jimmy was — where others saw problems, he saw the end result. He saw what he could create, and got to work right away tirelessly creating it.
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