ADVENTURES OF BUDDY FROM IOWA
						by Chet Dowry

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Edited in Tokyo, JP

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Chapter One
Early life

MLK (aka Buddy) was born in farm country to a pair of farmers, Edith and Glenn.  The two were very hard-working and MLK was their second child.  The eldest was a boy, Franklin.  The second was MLK.  Next, came several other including Ronaldo, Daniello, Karina and Denie.  So, it was quite a large family.  They lived in a farm in southeast Iowa near the home of John Wayne, famous cowboy film actor.   MLK really loved John Wayne growing up and still does.  He has a large poster in his palacial Califonie mansion.
MLK spent his early childhood in Iowa on the farm.  There was no running water.  Just a cistern, well and outhouse.  The family raised animals such as rabbits, chickens, horses.  MLK's father was from Nebraska but he left there and came to Iowa where he met Edith and married when the two were at a young age, just out of high school.  Glenn finished the sixth grade.  Edith graduated high school.  They settled in the Afton, Iowa area.  One funny story is this:  Glenn was busy at work one day when a man drove up to the modest farm house way out in the country and offered to buy the horses.  There were two of them.  Edith agreed and the horses were sold. This was not pleasing to Glenn.  Another story involved FDR and his farm rules.  Glenn was impacted by all the animal slaughters and other rules, it changed him.  He really loved animals and fish, and so he had no respect for FDR, the way he caused a great slaughter.  Glenn raised a lot of vegetables in a huge garden like rubarb, peas, beans.

Glenn, MLK's father, got a got working for a creamery - a popular occupation at the time.  Creameries hired many drivers to deliver milk.  And so, Glenn made a living for the family in the 1950's.  The family attended an LDS, Mormon church at the time in the area until one day when MLK was in 5th grade or so and the family pulled up to the church parking lot in their vehicle and Edith or Glenn or both saw something they didn't like.  Perhaps it was dancing, or a girl showing her ankle.  Whatever it was, it really turned off MLK's parents so they took off out of the LDS church, never to return.  They headed to the Lutheran church nearby and never looked back.  When the family arrived in their automobile at the Lutheran church, MLK's older brother, Franklin, was already there, having a ball with the girlies.
This was a point of consternation for a while between MLK's parents because Edith's family was all LDS.  Not much is known of Glenn's family.  Nobody ever met them or saw them or heard their names!  But MLK insists that they live in Nebraska and they are unfriendly alcoholics.  MLK says that one time in the 1950's or so, the family drove out to Nebraska as was customary in those days on Sundays.  At that time, people would drop in on friends and relatives, go for a Sunday drive.  But, Nebraska is part of the West too, so it has some rough terrain, if you will.  It's not the Wild West anymore like it once was, like California is now, but still it apparently has some rough edges because MLK and the family arrived at Glenn's relatives' home and were greeted with guns.  So, they didn't return much.

Early in life, MLK also went all the way to California, drove out with whole family to Yosemite Valley and visited everything in between Iowa and Yosemite on the way there and back.  MLK really enjoyed this trip and it may have inspired his life-long love of travel and the travel industry.  MLK was born with a very auspicious astrological chart.  He has a close-orb grand water trine and he has an aspect with Neptune.  Also, he is a 2nd decan Pisces, sidereal.
  
Chapter Two
High School

Buddy went to a high school near Afton and was the most popular kid in school, pretty much.  They called him The Roman, because the ladies loved him and he was a star athlete.  His name is plastered all over Iowa, with records in his given sports.  In high school, he often was seen with his best friend Geo.  They rode together to school and worked odd summer jobs together.  In Iowa, money is tight.  People have to work hard to make a living.  So, MLK worked construction and labour position.  Buddy loves to tell the story of when he hung from the side of a building with a rope harness and used a jackhammer against a wall.  And another time, he helped build the big arch in St. Louis but all the fiberglass bothered him a bit, the skin was irritated.  

In high school, MLK was highly sought after by the ladies.  However, he devoted himself to his studies and refused the many invitations to homecoming and prom dances, choosing instead to work in the laboratory on his experiments.  He was working to develop new types of tomatos which are blight resistant naturally, without gene-splicing or any far-out ideas like that.

MLK was determined to work in a field like biology because he loved tomato, onion, animals and outdoors.  He spent a lot of time in the field, birdwatching and collecting samples of animal footprints, scat, dead insects.  These he collected and labeled carefully, running chemical analysis experiments and writing up detailed reports.  This pattern of scientific devotion would serve his well later in life as his career soared in California private industry.

In high school, one of the main sports MLK did was track.  The wrestling coach and girls all begged him to join the wrestling team, but he was busy with American Football and track.  In football, he played defense.  He begged the coach to let him play offense too, because he was the best quarterback on the team, however, the coach did not want to run up the score too high on all the other teams and make them look bad.  This cost MLK a scholarship for star QB to Univ. of Iowa.  Instead, MLK was star defense end like Lawrence Taylor.  Opposing teams feared the day they would come to Afton, they knew it was impossible to lose by less than 28 points.
On the track team, they called him The Roman.  The ladies never used to come to the football games, too cold and lots of mosquitos.  However, once MLK started playing for the Wildcats (that was the mascot), attendance soared and there was a large number of female fans.  Of course, at the same time, the team suddenly started winning, going undefeated in the regular season with MLK causing many turnovers.  When he played football, the coach would take all the team out to eat the night before the game.  They would go to a vegetarian restaurant and the coach would pay.  The coach said it was important that all the kids have the right vitamins for the game, so they would eat a lot of corn like corn on cob, corn biscuits, cornbread, polenta, vegetables breaded with cornmeal and oven friend in soybean oil.
Thus, Buddy continued to excel in high school.  His family left the farm while he was around 6th grade and moved to a big huge house in the best part of a little town.  It was next to a lake and on the edge of town, perfect.  Buddy continued his studies in town and enjoyed going to Dairy Queen for treats  There was a movie theater, shops, sports store, a drag.  So, Buddy enjoyed his time at the jr. high school and high school as well.  He received high marks but was best known for sports prowess.

Chapter Three
College

After graduating high school with honours, Buddy continued his course of work at a junior college in SW Iowa and then proceeded to Iowa State University where he majored in Fish and Wildlife.  He had a passion for animals and wanted to work against poaching.  But at the university, the ladies were constantly begging Buddy for dates and tutoring and this impacted his grades so eventually he left the university after meeting his future wife to join the war effort.  His fiance was very patriotic and was taken by the recruiting mottos and hype, so she convinced Buddy to join up.  He wanted to join Marines or Army but his dear mother, Edith, convinced him to join Navy instead because she didn't want Buddy to get injured or killed in line of duty. 

By this time, Buddy's mom had been confined to wheelchair, no longer able to walk or more arms, hands.  She could talk a bit.  This happened after she received a polio vaccine.  Her symptoms were attributed to polio but many thought it could have been the polio vaccine.  This caused Buddy to worry constantly and buy his dear mother many gifts which dampered his budget temporarily.  Of course, once everyone found out that Buddy was leaving Ames to join the armed services and fight in the Vietnam War, there was a general hue and outcry.  Some students were patriotic and glad Buddy was following his heart.  Other students were not anti-war but they were very upset that Buddy was leaving Ames, Iowa and would be in harm's way on the frontlines of a bloody war.
All this was happening when one day a knock came at his dorm room.  Buddy answered and saw the woman of his dreams, Karina.  She was a brunette, very attractive, outgoing.  She was wearing a poodle skirt and a nice blouse with sweater.  Karina was there to meet Buddy's roommate, Red.  However, Red was out at the time of her visit and the two, Karina and Buddy, fell madly in love.  From that point on they were often seen together and had many outings.

Karina was from the finest suburb north of Chicago.  Her family is Hollywood royalty.  Two of her first cousins are very famous movie and tv actors.  She was very rich, of course.  She passed away around 2015 from natural causes.  She was born in sidereal leo, first decan, and her personality was very artistic and outgoing.  She had blue eyes and curly hair.  5'4", 115 lbs.  Many guys asked her out constantly but she was madly in love with Buddy.  Karina worked on campus of ISU as a soda-jerk and she met a prostitute who worked at the cafe.  Karina went to Guatemala with the prostitute to meet her family and see the country.  She never lost her love for spanish food after that trip, often cooking up vegetarian tacos in buffet style.

So, when Karina found out that Buddy was going to leave ISU and join the armed services, Karina immediately made plans to follow and him and transfer her coursework to a college near his base assignment.  The couple married in December and Buddy travelled the world as a high ranking enlisted man before achieving the ranks of NCO.  Buddy spent a lot of time in Japan and many other continents like Europe.  He worked for the intelligence service.

Chapter Four
Vietnam War

Karina followed him all over the world but she mainly stayed in the USA on base and off-base.  The two moved to Denver, Washington, Alameda and several other locations before landing in Hillsborough, California area.  They rented a place south of Hillsborough and lived there for a short time before buying a huge mansion house in San Mateo County.  Buddy went to asia and fought the war and the kids stayed in California.  The couple lived in Fruitvale, Oakland for awhile.

...........to be continued.................
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