Thankful Strother, born in 1943, graduated from high school and joined the US Air Force in 1961. He was stationed in Germany for four years. There he learned to speak German and met his wife Barbara. They married in 1966. They have two adult children. Thankful Strother had a thirty-five-year career in computers and telecommunications. He retired in 2003. He and his wife live in California and they just celebrated forty-six years of marriage. Now he enjoys visiting the ocean daily, where he watches and listens to the waves while observing nature. In his retirement, he has accomplished his goal