Child of the Fifties Watches an American Walk on the Moon is the autobiographical story of the son of two World War II veterans who spent his childhood growing up on USAF bases in the US and overseas. He is the child of the Greatest Generation whose early life saw the cost of the cold war personally when he and his brother watched from their backyard as a B-52 crashed just a couple of miles away. He spent much of the sixties in Charleston West Virginia where his Father was the USAF Liaison to the West Virginia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol. He spent the summer after graduation from high school as a deckhand on the tow boat operating on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. He watch Americans walk on the moon and graduated from the University of Central Florida in June 1972.