Of Glory and Remembrance

R. L. Hester

R. L. Hester was an independent child and learned early to entertain himself and developed a grand imagination, because there was a difference of six or seven years between the four children. Obviously, due to the age difference, the children were not very close at all.

School was always a challenge for Bob due to his constant endless imagination. However, high school brought on a change and he improved his study habits and his grades improved substantially.

He entered the Army on September 6, 1968, and served nearly nine years as a combat engineer. His assignments were all over, some enjoyable, some not so. However, the years spent living in Germany and France were his favorite.

Upon his leaving the Army, he chose to stay in Germany and became a photographer where he enjoyed several years as a freelancer and worked for a professional studio.

Returning to the States, he started out as a line supervisor for a company that made computer CRTs. From there, he migrated to Northern Telecom, where he worked for 9 years and 10 months before being laid off to avoid his pension.

This soured Bob on high tech, so he moved into management and held several positions up to director of manufacturing. In the last years of his career, he sought to return to Germany and did so for a number of years as a photographer until he returned to the States once again. The last years he spent as a contractor to numerous government agencies developing business proposals.

Writing had been a hobby he developed in the Army during those long boring lulls on duty. Everything until 1978 was handwritten, then typed until the computer was available. He has an enormous amount of reference from stories he’s written over the years and Of Glory and Remembrance is one of those stories.