Mykul3649's Blog

Mykul3649

I am a lifelong, native Washingtonian a 74 graduate of Woodrow Wilson. I am proud having been a DC resident all my life. I take honor in having served my country in the US Navy as an Operations Specialist (retired due to disabling injury), at one point for five months sitting off the coast of Iran while the hostages were being held, waiting for rescue operation to start. I am a certified scuba diver, the pic is of me scuba diving in Belize I have made trips to many countries, while in the Navy and since I was retired, all over the caribbean, and many countries in Central and South America (I am fluent in Spanish). When I bought my house, I looked specifically at SE Washington, having spent some childhood years on Douglas Rd, walking along Nicols Avenue. At that time many white Jewish families lived in Anacostia and I used to cut grass and trim hedges on the weekends to make money. I remember the first black history museum that opened in the old theater, and even though the exhibits didn't change much, we'd go every weekend. I remember when John Kennedy was assasinated, he had just come to my school the year before. I remember the riots when Martin was killed, and I feared for my grandmother who was very light skinned, that she would be mistaken for white. She had to walk home from downtown to 8th and Kennedy street NW and I was so releived when I saw her. I remember her love and it sustains me, even to this day, God Bless her soul!