10 Things I've Done That Most People Probably Haven't

[dcseain]

This is so not something i generally think about. Here goes...

1. Met Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan while they were in office, at the White house.

2. Spent several mornings plucking chickens for supper while visiting family on school vacations.

3. Spent every 4th of July but for one at the White House, from birth to age 12.

4. Attended the groundbreaking for the new Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC.

5. Cloned African Violets, carrots, and radishes while in high school.

6. Used my father's family as a case study for autosomal recessive inheritance for a genetics class.

7. Helped record the graves in an unrecorded cemetery, and in the process found the earliest known marked graves in Prince William County, VA. 'DYD 1612' the pair of sarcophagi are marked.

8. Narrated a stage show in Mandarin, Vietnamese, Hmong, Russian, Japanese, French, Spanish, Farsi, Hungarian, and English.

9. Helped judged the pig and cow contests at the Hartford Fair in Licking County, OH for 2 years.

10. Have bowled in the White House bowling alley.

Comments

[scarlettj9.livejournal.com]

You have spent entirely too much time at the white house. :)

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Daddy was Secret Service, so i spent more time than average at both the White House and at various embassies growing up.

[suecochran.livejournal.com]

When a relative is in the Secret Service, are you allowed to tell anyone about that, or is it discouraged? When John started working at the CIA as a contractor for Lockheed Martin, he was told "your family and friends need not know where you work" but then we were invited to attend the CIA's open house where you could purchase items with the CIA logo on them, like hats and t-shirts. What's the deal with that?

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Secret Service has 2 main functions: protection and investigations. Investigations handles issues relating to counterfeiting and payment systems. Protection protects the President & Vice President, former U.S. Presidents, visiting foreign dignitaries and other protectees, including embassies.

My father formally worked for Treasury/USSS/UD/FMB, United States Secret Service, Uniformed Division, Foreign Missions Branch. This meant he had a patrol car or motorcycle and worked protect embassies and ambassadors on a day-to-day basis. He spent a lot of time at the Canadian, Saudi, Egyptian, Soviet, Iranian, and Mexican missions. Today, my Mother who is formally a retiree of the Secret Service, may get pulled into Homeland Security, but who knows.

During campaign season, he would tour with people who were campaigning for president. My family has many beautiful photographs of Racho del Cielo, as my father used to ride perimeter there during the early Reagan years.

We knew where he worked, if not exactly what he did, especially when he was with the President, Vice President, or candidates. And we were free to tell what he did, insofar as we knew.

In the 3rd grade, our field trip fell thru, and with 24 hrs notice, he arranged for my class to have a private tour of both the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and of the White House. For auctions at my middle school, he got donations in 3 consecutive years from VP Bush, the Egyptian ambassador, and the British ambassador.

[suecochran.livejournal.com]

Coolness. When John was in the Air Force and working for WHCA, we could have gone to what is referred to as a "grin and grope" with President Clinton, but I was too tired to want to get out of bed. I regret not going to that. What was the autosomal recessive gene in your father's family that you used for your class?

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, aka Motor Neuron Disease, aka Lou Gehrig's Diseaes

[suecochran.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear that. Did you have many relatives on his side die of that?

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Him, his mother, possibly his father, his mother's father, and soon his sister.