After retirement in January 2000 and almost fifty years of marriage, James finally succumbed to years of peer pressure to write this book about his life. He had a wonderful childhood growing up wit...ver maisAfter retirement in January 2000 and almost fifty years of marriage, James finally succumbed to years of peer pressure to write this book about his life. He had a wonderful childhood growing up with two brothers and a sister, all younger, parents and grandparents on both sides and uncles and aunts and many cousins. Their side of the family probably was in the lower middle class but they didn't know it; deprivations were very few. James married soon after graduating from high school in 1953 as valedictorian of his class, then spent four years in the U. S. Navy's SeaBees. His working life then spanned two career fields; the first in positions of mid-management in the grain industry then, the last twenty-five years as a Resident Construction Manager and in administering project controls as a construction planner on heavy industrial construction projects.ver menos