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This memoir is a summary of my early childhood, education, and research career at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC. I describe my early interest in astronomy and how I wound up working in the fields of solar physics and X-ray-UV spectroscopy of high temperature plasmas. I describe some of my home life and other interests, my education at the University of Pittsburgh, and the various projects and management activities that I have been fortunate to work on at NRL. I have been blessed with being able to work at a first-class research laboratory populated by outstanding scientists. I am particularly blessed to have worked with my many friends and colleagues in the NRL Space Science Division. Perhaps I am most blessed by having had wonderful parents that gave me the interests I have in life and the passion to pursue them, and an outstanding wife that has been my partner through good and bad times for over 50 years. I am now retired but for three years I was a participant in the NRL Voluntary Emeritus Program (VEP). However, this memoir is a personal account, and not work done as a VEP.

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Acknowledgements

I would again like to express my deep gratitude and thank you to the Solar Physics memoir committee for giving me the opportunity to write this memoir. It has been a fascinating trip back in time that has brought back many wonderful memories. I am also grateful to have the many colleagues and friends throughout the world who have helped make my research career a fascinating and memorable experience for me. And finally, I would like to thank my wife for putting up with me as I wrote this memoir.

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