Dad's Memorial Video 1

When I was 4 years old, my dad came home from work (he was a pilot and had been on a trip) and he showed me a device he bought while he was gone. I recall standing in the driveway at our modest house in El Paso, and he holds up an 8mm film camera and immediately shows me how to aim it, punch a button on the front and make movies. That single even in my young life would be the seed planted for my career in television. I eventually worked almost around the globe, to spending the summer of 1989 working and living in the Soviet Union based in Moscow, but also touring Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and many regions of Russia. Little did I know, that my relationship with the camera would take me to Mogadishu in 1992 where I witnessed our American military as they participated in Operation Restore Hope, to save the lives of starving people in Somalia.

The camera has greatly rewarded my life as I look back on my times and I was lucky to have a father who graced my life for 55 years and 14 days.