People have said that my life is better than lies: I'll let you decide. I am a Vietnam Veteran, USMC. From the ages of three until seven I traveled across the southern U.S.with my grandparents in a 1949 Dodge school bus that he converted into an early "motor home." At age fifteen I was hit by a car and went through the windshield sustaining serious head injuries. I am a self taught writer and even got a gig as an editor at a city magazine. In 2004 I was diagnosed with PTSD (Postraumatic Stress Disorder)and currently speak to veterans and community groups on mental illness and have written a memoir about that experience. I am anxious to be a Wikipedian in the spirit of W.C. Minor, prolific contributor to the Oxford Dictionary while confined at Broadmoor Asylum and subject of the book: "The Professor and the Madman." Checkpoint one fourCheckpoint one four (talk) 01:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC). /notebook