I was born, (my parents told me), a Montanan, in early 1943.
I grew up in the immediate environment of two wars of significance. I am
the first-born of four boys born to a W.W.II serviceman and a teacher.
Our mother is an emancipated Lutheran farm-girl from Nebraska and our father
was a Catholic city-boy from Louisiana. Between them, we have 20th century
German, French and Polish ancestry. The Old Country languages were spoken
among our elders in private, but only English was spoken when children
of my generation were present, a deliberate practice to assure rapid assimilation
into this society and our industries. American English is my only useful
language.
My childhood was spent in the typically peripatetic life of a soldier's
family, moving from state to state from Montana, to Nebraska, California,
Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana and possibly other
places that I do not remember. At seventeen, I dropped out of school and
joined the United States Marine Corps, a choice which brought with it an
invaluable four-year assortment of illustrated lessons for adult life.
I arrived in California in 1972 and I am now a declared Californian
and Citizen of the state. California is my domicile and I have lived in
the City of San Buenaventura for about fifteen years.
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Contact Henry Nicolle:
Mail: c/o POB 5633 Ventura, California (93005) - -
Tel: 805-758-4446 - - e-Mail: henry@henrynicolle.org
Last Revision: 16 July, 2004
