My name is Edward Segar. I was drafted in March 1970 and served 19 months and 8 days of active duty in the Army. I extended my tour for 30 days, so I would get out of the Army when I left Vietnam. I went to Fort Lenard Wood for basic training then to Fort Rucker for aviation training. I went to Vietnam in September 1970 and repaired helicopters in the 282nd Black Cats Assault Helicopter Company till October of 1971. My rank was a Sp4 when I was honorably discharged from the Army .
I came back to the world and returned to my job as a ready-mix truck driver here in a small town in northwest Missouri. I started dating my wife and started thing about raising a family and would need more income, so I went to an electrical school then got a job fixing copiers for Xerox in Kansas City. After I was hired by Xerox, I heard about an opening to work in the area around my hometown, and they gave me that area to work.
We got married in December of 1972, started working for Xerox in July of 1973, and retired in June of 2005. I wasn’t a Christian in Vietnam; I started going to church with my wife and became a Christian in 1973. I eventually started teaching youth during Sunday School and went on to work with youth for several years. The last Sunday School I taught was a children’s class and one of my students is the granddaughter of a girl that in the first youth class I taught. I am also a Deacon in our church. We have 2 kids and 5 grandkids, all living within 4 miles of our place on a farm 4 miles out in the country. It has been a really great life. Our son is also a Deacon and Young Adult Sunday School teacher in our church.
I have several health issues that can be caused by Agent Orange, the main one being Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL). In process of treating me for the CLL, they saw my kidneys were failing, I started dialysis in June of 2023, I am on peritoneal dialysis at home every night for 8 hours, really cuts down on opportunities to travel, that’s what I’m looking forward to when I get a new kidney.
We live on a farm, but we are not farmers. We have a few acres of hay, but the rest is in Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). I guess I would be called a hobby farmer. I used to spend a lot of time in my shop fixing and modifying things, so they would work the way I wanted them to. I did go to a welding school right after high school, but I learned enough about welding to decide that I did not want to make it my career but still used the skill in my shop. Because of my health, I haven’t been able to do that for a while.
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