Growing up in the Pacific Northwest. Dropping out of college in 1964, drafted Army released to the Navy. Spent 2 years in Vietnam on a flat bottom LST amphibious Navy, Saigon River, Mekong Delta, beachings along coast. Three years back from Vietnam hospitalized at Seattle VA hospital. Six years later spent 5 months at VA Medical Center, Tacoma, WA diagnosed as manic depression or now Bipolar Disorder. Later met a beautiful Polish girl on vacation. God not only sent me a beautiful Polish girl, but also my private physician as a Dr. of Internal Medicine and i have been on lithium thirty five years>