AUTHORS BIO & PIC
Charles Richard Sheetz
I was born and raised on a small farm in the hills of Southern Indiana, in a little
community called Tulip. The population back then was 21 people. The only thing
there was an old country store by the railroad tracks. As a child I loved to go there. It
contained anything you might need food, hardware and many other items. It was a
gathering place. There were two tables by the potbelly stove, one was for checkers
and the other for cards and the game usually played the most was Euchre. It was a
great place to listen to the old men when they sat around and played cards and
talked about adventures they had, had locally and faraway places. This kindled my
desire to see these places and I did.
My story telling abilities were developed by my love to hear good stories and lies. I’ve
spent many hours listening to some real characters at our country store, church
socials, and down on the corner’s of the town square at Bloomfield, Indiana. At these
corners were park benches and often time they would be inhabited by older retired
men and boy could they spread the blarney. I went to high school at Bloomfield High
School, class of 1964 for three years. I met some wonderful people whom I still am
friends with after all these years, we communicate dailey in our Group page in Yahoo
called the Bloomfield class of 1964. I spent my fare share of time at these park bench’
s, which are fondly called the Lair’s benches. As I got a little older and got up my
nerve I even tried my hand at stretching the truth’s there, but I was way out of my
league.
The desire to see the world so consumed me that I left home at sixteen and a half
and went to Cincinnati, Ohio where I finished my last year of high school by working
for my room and board and staying in the boys dormitory. This was a private school
called God’s Bible School and College.
After graduation I joined the Navy to see the world. During my four years in the
service I got to see many places, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and
all but four of the states in this country. I made two tours of duty to Viet Nam aboard a
Destroyer the USS Richard S Edwards DD950. I was injured on my second tour and
spent a month on the hospital ship the Repose and then was sent to Da Nang where
I spent another month working as a military police officer. I was then sent to Dung Ha
and after a few weeks was able to catch a River Patrol boat back out to my ship. This
War time experiance changed me from a carefree adventure seeking teenager to a
man that looked out at the world and people with different eyes; it changed me and
many others. In my case for the good some of the others not so good.
Over the next forty years I’ve worked as a police officer for the city of Tampa, the
University of Tampa, the Dept. of Defence at the Crane Naval Ammunition Depot and
a Town Marshal at Crane Indiana, store manager, long distance truck driver, supply
clerk, division manager for Secuex Security, construction laborer, saw operator in a
saw mill, janitor, bartender and many other jobs. I did what ever it took to make
money to raise my family. I raised three children in my first marriage. I even squeezed
in three and a half years of college in during that time at the University of South
Florida and Hillsbourgh Community College in Tampa, Florida.
I am presently married to a wonderful lady and I am working as a communications
officer for the Baldwin County Sheriffs office in Baldwin County, Alabama one of the
most beautiful places on God's green earth.
251-937-4836
Charles Richard Sheetz
I was born and raised on a small farm in the hills of Southern Indiana, in a little
community called Tulip. The population back then was 21 people. The only thing
there was an old country store by the railroad tracks. As a child I loved to go there. It
contained anything you might need food, hardware and many other items. It was a
gathering place. There were two tables by the potbelly stove, one was for checkers
and the other for cards and the game usually played the most was Euchre. It was a
great place to listen to the old men when they sat around and played cards and
talked about adventures they had, had locally and faraway places. This kindled my
desire to see these places and I did.
My story telling abilities were developed by my love to hear good stories and lies. I’ve
spent many hours listening to some real characters at our country store, church
socials, and down on the corner’s of the town square at Bloomfield, Indiana. At these
corners were park benches and often time they would be inhabited by older retired
men and boy could they spread the blarney. I went to high school at Bloomfield High
School, class of 1964 for three years. I met some wonderful people whom I still am
friends with after all these years, we communicate dailey in our Group page in Yahoo
called the Bloomfield class of 1964. I spent my fare share of time at these park bench’
s, which are fondly called the Lair’s benches. As I got a little older and got up my
nerve I even tried my hand at stretching the truth’s there, but I was way out of my
league.
The desire to see the world so consumed me that I left home at sixteen and a half
and went to Cincinnati, Ohio where I finished my last year of high school by working
for my room and board and staying in the boys dormitory. This was a private school
called God’s Bible School and College.
After graduation I joined the Navy to see the world. During my four years in the
service I got to see many places, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and
all but four of the states in this country. I made two tours of duty to Viet Nam aboard a
Destroyer the USS Richard S Edwards DD950. I was injured on my second tour and
spent a month on the hospital ship the Repose and then was sent to Da Nang where
I spent another month working as a military police officer. I was then sent to Dung Ha
and after a few weeks was able to catch a River Patrol boat back out to my ship. This
War time experiance changed me from a carefree adventure seeking teenager to a
man that looked out at the world and people with different eyes; it changed me and
many others. In my case for the good some of the others not so good.
Over the next forty years I’ve worked as a police officer for the city of Tampa, the
University of Tampa, the Dept. of Defence at the Crane Naval Ammunition Depot and
a Town Marshal at Crane Indiana, store manager, long distance truck driver, supply
clerk, division manager for Secuex Security, construction laborer, saw operator in a
saw mill, janitor, bartender and many other jobs. I did what ever it took to make
money to raise my family. I raised three children in my first marriage. I even squeezed
in three and a half years of college in during that time at the University of South
Florida and Hillsbourgh Community College in Tampa, Florida.
I am presently married to a wonderful lady and I am working as a communications
officer for the Baldwin County Sheriffs office in Baldwin County, Alabama one of the
most beautiful places on God's green earth.
251-937-4836
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