My husband and I have been Ralph's friends for fifty-seven years and have watched him live the extraordinary life of the ordinary man that he has written about in this book. Ralph lived and worked internationally as an engineer and has friends all over the world who took part in some of these stories and are proud to be his friend. Ralph has influenced a large number of young people from Thailand for whom he was a mentor as he facilitated their educations in the United States. He is a proud family man who continues to travel, but is always home in the fall to harvest the fruits of his Kentucky apple orchard. This book is a good read! Settle down and enjoy the story of a remarkable man. Helen D. Hume Artist, art educator, and author Helen Hume is an artist, art educator, and author of nine books for art educators.
D. Ralph Young was born in Kentucky in the mid-1920s and grew up on a farm in central Kentucky. He spent his years there before entering World War II and serving in the Pacific Theater as a Gunner's Mate on the USS J. Franklin Bell. After marriage and a college degree from University of Kentucky, he and his family spent forty or so years in St Louis in between their stints in Bangkok, Malaysia, Oman, Iran, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia where he practiced his career as a power engineer. He retired (several times) to Greasy Ridge Road in Central Kentucky, his birthplace, to establish an orchard. Currently, he spends his time traveling back and forth between his homes in SW Ohio and Kentucky as well as cruising on ships. This is his first book about his life story.
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