Timothy Kotschwar
| Residing In: | Berryville, AR USA |
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| Spouse/Partner: | Robin |
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| Children: | Kelly, Girl, 01/04/86 single. Robert, Boy 03/13/89 single...Four grand-daughters Brooklynn, Brianna, More… |
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| Military Service: | Army Guard  |
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Great info Karen, thanks for the input.
Thank you Julie and Sandy for your comments but real action is needed now by the rest of our class, two years will fly by as we all know. I am asking every class member to ask all the classmates that you still have contact with to have those classmates read these posts and join the movement. We need every living classmate to at least read these post's and commit yay or nay. Money will be needed and I will pledge $100 now and more maybe later to this cause. It is far from what I wish to offer but money is always tight around the Kotschwar house. John's memory is that important to me and should be to everyone else. Please act and act now. This site needs to blow up fast if we will accomplish our goal.
If there is anyone left of our reunion committee we need a leader to step up and take this movement forward, Ron Hatfield, Rob Peters and Bill West are the first names I can think of. Can you please help get something started fellow classamtes?
Your's truly, Kotch.
To the rest of the class of 1978,
John sought me out at one of our class reunions, he knew I was a Captain in the Army National Guard and had been involved with Desert Storm having served as the Battalion Ammo Officer. He asked me if I had a Top Secret security clearance and I said I did. What he said next surprised and amazed me. John was part of the Nuclear Proliferation Compliance Team. What this meant was he went into the heart of Mother Russia and to some of their most secret bases to verify Russia's compliance with the salt treaty. Truely a heroic action. Now the children born after we graduated did not experience life as we did. Let me explain.
During our childhood there were two things that we as kids saw and lived thru every day of our young lives. The first was Viet Nam, this war while none of us had to fight it, was on the news and horrificly displayed every night on the evening news. Pictures of wounded and dead Viet and American soldiers were shown without censorship every night. Older siblings constantly worried about the draft and the loss of friends and family members were a constant worry for everyone in the country. It hardened our generation just as WWII and Korea had done to our parents. But Vietnam ended in 75 and we were thankful but still remember the social unrest it caused.
The other huge topic was Nuclear war, We all saw video's of the destruction it caused and many of us went thru the drills in case of an attack. The arms race was out of controll and any sirens set our hearts to racing, Now back to John, he couldn't do anything about the Vietnam war but he could do something about the "Bomb". When the SALT Treaties came about John was the go to guy for our government. The problem for John was he was proud of his accomplishments and want his classmates to know what he had accomplished but he was under a secrecy blanket and couldn't legally say anything. That is where I came in, There were a great many things he couldn't even discuss with me as they were WAY higher than my Top Secret clearance would go but he could tell me what I just told you.
Now every generation has it's own issues but Our children did not have to grow up as afraid as we did. John's work made the world a lot safer for our kids and their kids than we had it. While the threat is still out there John had a big hand in easing the fear and for his overall lifetime of work I think we should Honor our friend by getting him installed in the LNE hall of fame. He really needs to have been honored by our state and government but one step at a time. This needs to be addressed now so that we can get him installed by our 50th Reunion on Homecoming night 2027.
But I leave it up to you, Johns classmates. This is just my Humble opinion of John.
Yours truely, Kotch
And thank you again Tom Bowmaster for your help.
Happy birthday Rob, and many more. :)
Happy Early Birthday Julie, I hope you are doing well. :)
Posted on: Oct 02, 2024 at 9:04 PM
happy birthday bud!
Posted on: Sep 25, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Posted on: Jun 29, 2024 at 11:38 AM
Happy Early Birthday Terry!
Celebrated 42nd Anniversary Today with My Lovely wife Robin. Whooo Hooo.
Posted on: Jun 11, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Bill abbey's wife Eva said they found a cache of old trophies under LNE and the head Admin guy there told the workers that found them to toss them, a teacher saw them in the garbage and rescued them. Do you have anyone who might help rescue them?
Posted on: Jun 11, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Tom, Bill abbey's wife Eva said they found a cache of old trophies under LNE and the head Admin guy there told the workers that found them to toss them, a teacher saw them in the garbage and rescued them. Do you have anyone who might help rescue them?
Posted on: Jun 03, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Happy Birthday!
Posted on: Oct 23, 2023 at 9:05 PM
Posted on: Oct 03, 2023 at 12:14 AM
Happy Birthday bud.