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Sponsored Search by Ancestry. Search Records. DNA Connections It may be possible to confirm family relationships with George by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. First Name. Last Name. Their father died. I saw that we go through hard times and they can be awful and they can disrupt families and make you leave your home, but if you work hard and work honestly and stick to it and you have family and that love, you can survive anything.

My voice got real deep at a very young age. It was in downtown Hollywood. You walked out of the building and saw all the young male prostitutes hanging out. I was there a year. Then, I got drafted. In those days if you had money or power, you were in the National Guard. Now they all go overseas.

I dropped out of school and got immediately drafted. They were drafting everybody. Kids my age just disappeared. I was about 23 years old. I was infantry, and I started to cry, because I knew I was going to die. So I just went. But then they send me to Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

In those days Lawton, Oklahoma was three bars and a pawn shop. We were in two warehouses. One of my first images was opening up Conex full of stereos. The war was such a scam. People would just steal them and take them home. We had to button every button, it was degrees, we had to rake the sand and here he comes and he comes by at about 60 mph and I was waiting for the beer can to come flying out. As long as I was in Cam Ranh, I was safe. We were surrounded by the ROC, the Korean soldiers.

Every one of them was about 5 foot-8 and weighed pounds of muscle. Cam Rahn was important because it was the major supply thing north of Saigon. We were really safe there. I was there during TET. The only time I got close was with my friend Joe. He came from Bell Gardens, California. He was drafted one after me.

We met on the bus being driven to Fort Ord. We were in the same squad in basic training. We were in the same company in Fort Sill. We ended up in the same place in Cam Rahn Bay. But wherever you were going, you had to be before dark, because after dark everything belonged to Charlie, the Cong. We go out and get under our truck and put our rifle together.

I was never afraid until it was over. But I was proud that under fire, I did what I needed to do. I looked up, a mortar or grenade goes into that palm frond and blows this guy up and the whole thing disappears.

When light came up and everything settled down, they came and dragged bodies away. My guess would be that Joe and I probably killed somebody. Like a fool, I went on one more trip with him. What did I learn in Vietnam? I admired Johnson as a president because of all his civil rights things, that was very brave, but when I found out that he lied about the Tonkin Gulf, this alleged attack.

I came out of it very cynical about my country. I think we have a wonderful country and we may be turning things around. When I got home from Vietnam in , I got him just in time for the riots and the assassinations. Over there, people were trying to grow rice and living in the jungle. What did I learn about survival? A few inches, it could have been me. I had a buddy I grew up with named Mike. He was a grunt out there everyday and he got shot in the butt and he was so excited because he was going home.

It showed me that life is one of those things that you can persevere, but you can never account for that fickleness. You can walk across the street and get hit by a car. In general, if you stick to principles and work hard. But you can survive. But you have to have inner strength and most people have it, but they need to find it.

That day under the truck I found it. I went away thinking I can do this. I survived. I knew part of it was just chance. But I knew under stress I could be all right. My first job at Palm Spring, I was doing everything. I loved it. I worked all day and night for no money. Our weather girl was a woman named Patty Beebee. She met and married actor Tom Bosley and she quit. So I was doing weather, too.

I wrote the show. I would go shoot. I would edit it. I would write it. Then I would do sports. And then when Patty BeeBee left, I did weather.

This would have been early s. I went to the restaurant after just being on the air a little time and this woman had me sign her autograph book and I was signing and right above me was Sonny Bono.

Maupin will you sign my autograph book? I did sports for quite a while in Las Vegas. I got cocky. I thought I was a big shot. Kind of know your place. Your reality is not just what you are living. Other people are working with you and going through this with you.

It made me focus on what was important in life. Big Shot just because I was on TV. I might have become an arrogant SOB. The guy wanted me to wear an eye patch. He was crazy. In the s, he was kind of famous as a goofy weather guy and then he was running the station. I got out of it. I try not to be an anchor.

So I decided to be whoever I am and let it come out. And if it works, it works. I want to be myself, just a regular person who happens to be on TV. People want real people. I got married in my late 40s. My wife was in her mids. Nancy and I worked together for a year or more in Las Vegas. She was the producer and I was doing sports. I faced a wall because I was too easily distracted. We got to know each other. I admired and respected her and she was a knock-out, too.

We moved to Spokane when our son was 2. We had looked around. Anonymity is a wonderful thing. You go about your business.