I grew up during the depression in the hills of Western Maryland. To say we were dirt poor was putting it mildly. When I was 16, I left home, went to work in a factory. When World War II began, I enlisted in the Navy at age 17. After the war, I married, had six children and got my “call” to the ministry. It took me ten years to work my way through college and seminary and I was ordained in the Methodist Church. I served churches in Maryland, Montana, Wyoming and California.