Served in the U.S. Navy from 1965 to 1969 as an Interior Communications Electrician. Service included WESTPAC cruises aboard two destroyers and several combat "shore bomb" tours to Vietnam.

Worked as a programmer, systems analyst and programming manager from 1972 to 1988. Served as Chairman and CEO of own software company from 1988 to 1996. Took the software company public on the Nasdaq market in 1995.

Went into "semi-retirement" in 1996 due to muscular dystrophy.

Founded the Free Republic web site in 1996 and served as president, chief, cook, and bottle washer ever since.

Free Republic has been active in politics and fighting against illegal government expansion and corruption since 1996. Some of the highlights of Free Republic include our March for Justice in 1998 where several thousand of us rallied with Congressman Bob Barr in Washington, D.C. and called for the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton. Free Republic was also instrumental in the "Sore Loserman" campaign to prevent Al Gore from stealing the Whitehouse. Free Republic has sponsored protests and rallies in hundreds of cities across the nation, protesting against political corruption and abuse, and, since September 11th, rallying in support of President Bush and our troops.