Sp5 Robert R. Wilson
From Nam to Germany
I was RA when I left
Vietnam
on 30July67
. I had one more year left, and was on orders to go to
Germany
. When I found out that I was going
to
Germany
, I called my fiancé Joanne from
Vietnam
, and ask if she would marry me (gave her a ring before I left for VN) and go to
Germany
with me. Fortunately she said yes.
So we finished my enlistment and came home to
Pennsylvania
.
I had an Associate Degree from
Penn
State
, worked at American Bridge Division in
Gary
,
IN.
I got my draft notice, but then I
volunteered for the Army hoping to get into the Corps of Engineers, which
obviously didn’t happen. The degree helped me find a job in
Rochester
,
NY
with Xerox Corporation. I
worked as a lab technician and went to night school at Rochester Institute of
Technology to get my BS degree. After getting my BS degree, I worked as a
Technical Writer in the Xerox Skunk Works Division
documenting new product development, eventually working my way up to be a
supervisor. After 31 years with
Xerox, Joanne and I retired and
moved to Winston Salem, NC were we still reside.