Page 5 - MY STORY

W, who died in 2010. I wrote what I thought were little

vignettes about Joe that might be of interest to his heirs
and progeny, and that thinking blossomed into this
narrative.

My children know that I worked in aerospace most of my
professional life, but they really do not know exactly what

I did to satisfy my engineering bent, either because they
were not really interested, or they could not visualize
what I was talking about, or because I could not tell them

because of security constraints imposed toward the latter
third of my career. I’ve intentionally omitted that part of

my life that encompasses personal and family
relationships. That’s a completely separate story – not
told here. This is about being an engineer.

These vignettes are in roughly chronological order – and
are based, in part, on when the remembrances of the

incidents popped into my mind. Some of the vignettes
may seem benign and trivial to many of you, but at the
moment in time when they occurred they were anything

but trivial to me – so you may have to see these events
through my eyes, not yours. Some are told as stories and
some as reporting, based on what I thought was the best

way to present them. After looking at my progression