John P. Moench was born in Brooklyn in 1929, graduated from Syracuse University in 1952 with a Russian Language major, and served for three years as a linguist and crypt analyst in the USAF Security Service. He married Ruth Heilen, a graduate of Queens College NY in 1951, has two daughters, Diane and Susan, two grandchildren, Beth and David and one great granddaughter, Keira - to whom this book is dedicated. After a telecommunications career that spanned over thirty one years, he retired as Vice President of the Western Union Telegraph Company's International Worldwide Department in 1985, An i...