Grandmother, 2 sons, one in the military, now retired. Son served in Gulf War 1 from Aug. 1990 to April 1991 with an airborne unit. In early September,2006, he returned from months in Afghanistan, again in 2013, and in 2020 from the middle east. * Three grandsons have or are serving. My late husband served three years in Korea during the worst of it. * feel we face some very tough times ahead which will require a maximum of cooperation, creativity, entrepreneurship, and faith. I hope to transmit and originate ideas and knowledge that will facilitate the above. I want to find the best and most useful ideas of others to pass along. * My Background includes education and/or experience in natural sciences, political action, small business entrepreneurship, Latin American development, and arts and crafts creation and sales. * I am currently collecting information and writing historical novels on early American terrorists and several different natural disasters involving volcanoes and earthquakes. * I also have a strong interest in the long term influence of supervolcanoes and asteroid/comet strikes on humans and earlier life forms. Posted FR threads: * A Memorial Poem for Those Who Died & Those Who Survive. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698978/posts (9/10/06). * Front Line Views on Iraq/Afghanistan War Situation (3/12/06). * Front Line Views on Iraq/Afghanistan War Situation, No.2 (4/5/06). * Possible link between eurasian bird flu and destruction of Iraq Marshes (1/12/06). * Iran admits sanctions hurting oil investment: Foreign banks had 'decreased their cooperation', Financial Times (London) (12/21/06). * Fear of instability after death of eccentric Turkmen leader, Financial Times (London) (12/22/06)
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* Have visited 6 countries including Canada, Mexico (lived there 2 summers) and countries to the south. Currently as a senior citizen (2025) I have developed a body of knowledge and experience regarding Covid and cancer prevention and treatment using nutrition and supplements which i have shared with other FReepers at times.