I Wasn't Supposed to Live!

<p>Bob survived his premature birth after sharing the womb with his dead decomposing twin. He was born in Putman county Indiana in a farmhouse with no hospitalization. The delivering doctor told his father he would not live through the night. At seven years of age he was diagnosed with surviving twin syndrome.</p><p>His curiosity of how things worked helped shape much of his activity in his early years.</p><p>Through the years he developed a reputation for being able to fix almost anything that quit or broke except for a broken grasshopper’s leg.</p><p>Bob spent four years in the United States Air Force serving two years in Germany as the maintenance crew chief on the ground-to-ground Mace Missile. Upon discharge Bob went to work for ITT Electro Optics where he spent thirteen years. Six months after leaving his position at ITT he had lunch with his previous boss who informed him that ITT had hired six people to do all the things he had done for ITT.</p><p>Bob spent fifteen weeks behind the Iron Curtain in the Ukraine USSR in 1981 and 1982—years that were stressful and educational. A meeting with “the Russians” in November 1981 may have helped contribute to the fall of the USSR.</p><p>In 1984 Bob took the position of motor manufacturing engineer at Chamberlain Consumer Group. Bob retired after twenty-one years with Chamberlain where he was affectionately known as the Motor Man.</p><p>When informed of a need for something new by friends Bob would design the item on his computer then produce a prototype proof of performance product and deliver it and the prints to the one who had the need stating “Here you go you can patent it.” 2nd Safe an added safety for law enforcement weapons is one of those items. (2ndsafe.com)</p>