Norm Dilts Sr

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I was born in the pre second World War Era when most families still had the old Ice Boxes for refrigeration and used coal stoves for cooking and heat, with very little too no insulation for homes. The year was November 4, 1937 at Lynn Hospital( no longer standing) when I made an appearance. My parents were living in a small apartment and needed more space for me so they moved to an apartment on Nahant Street , near the downtown area of Lynn. in September of 1940 my sister Beverly was born and again we moved to a larger place which was a 3story house and we had the first floor and my Dad Changed jobs to be closer to us. He was a Milk Salesman(Milkman) with a fair size route, worked for Hood's Milk Co. which is still in business . On Dec 7, 1941 when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor my Dad joined the US Army Air Corps and went to Basic Training then on to Officers Candidate School and upon Graduation was a 2nd Lieutenant and was assigned to the 20th Air Force Bomber Group In the China, India, Burma area. My Dad (Harry) flew many times over the Hump as an observer for the supply routes. During this period of my life the whole Country was doing all it could towards the War effort, and that meant most of the Moms went to work and we children were boarded out to Families willing to take us so our Moms and Dads could do their parts. If we were lucky we saw our Moms on the weekends. My sister Bev was lucky and stayed with one family, but I was boarded with several different Families while I went to school, I remember going to 4 different schools in First Grade, but was lucky enough to have one Family that took me for 2nd and 3rd grades of school, then I went to live with my Grandparents for the 4th grade and then the war ended. In 1946 my Mom and Dad bought a house (2 Family) on Chatham St in Lynn right next door to my Great Grandma Brackett's house. I finished Elementary, Jr High, and on to Lynn English High School where I played Football and ran Track. Then I did something that helped me when I went into the Air Force, and that was being part of the Lynn Public School Band as Color Captain of the Color Guard, and also for a Drum and Bugle Drum Corps VFW Post in Peabody, Mass, until I went into the US Air Force in Oct 1955. Took basic training at Sampson AFB, Outside Geneva, N.Y. the on to Tech School at Ft Belvoir, Va. Then I volunteered for overseas duty and was assigned to Kindley AFB in Bermuda from 1956 to April 1958, then on to Warner Robins AFB, Ga as part of the 14th Air Force (Flying Tigers), until Oct 1959. After my active duty stint i was placed on active reserve for 2 years. After the Air Force I drove truck for a couple of different companies until Spring of 1961 when I got a Driver/Salesman's job For E. Demakes Co, who processes meat products for stores, Mom and Pop to big Supermarkets, mostly in the Framingham, Mass areas until fall of 1963 when I was offered a job as Farm Manager of a Dairy and Apple Farm in Nova Scotia. This lasted until 1965 when I was injured in a hunting accident which left me unable to walk for 6 months, then after extensive physical Therapy I went to work for Maritime Tel and Tel Ltd as an Installer. I also met my wife Joyce while working for the Telephone co and got married in September 2, 1966. Then in fall of 1968 I got an offer to work for Northeast Airlines out of Boston, which I jumped at for that is the type of work I did in the Air Force (Did Weight and Balance of Aircraft). So in Oct 1968 took a test for Northeast Airlines and started work in Dec 1968 and retired from Delta Air lines Inc, who bought Northeast in 1972, until Jan 1993, in Houston, Texas. After leaving the Airlines Got an offer to work for my Brother Mel, who had an AAMCO Transmission business in Tucson, Az, as General Manager. So we moved in 1994 to Tucson, AZ and worked with Mel until he closed the business in 1999 due to declining business. I then went to work for the US Postal Service as a Rural Mail Carrier from 2000 till 2006 when I had a near fatal Accident with my Postal Vehicle that left me unable to work. We moved from Tucson in 2014 to the Texas Hill Country and Segovia, Tx where we live now and the story continues. In 2016 Joyce and I moves into the big, little City of Junction, Tx to be closer to our son Neil and his Family. We also follow our Granddaughters Sierra and Faith thru their school activities, Sierra, who is a straight "A" student and very active in the school sports program, Volleyball, Basketball, Softball and Track, and Faith with "4H' and Band, French Horn, which has been an award winning Band for many years.