Prelude: I may have written about this before, but the one good thing about losing my mind is that I cannot remember much over the past few years~J It is also a very difficult subject to write about as I feel so much sadness for a wonderful country and it’s magnificent citizens.
Oh and I am weary of men who cannot seem to keep their penis’ in the proper place (my Mom think these fellows should be forced to super glue said appendage to a thigh if they are too stupid to act responsibly). That said, on to something new and different and on my very favorite topics: me (heh, narcissistic much:~? Of course).
Ahem.
Our family moved to Tehran in 1974 after living in Denver and then a suburb of Denver for a couple of years. My parents were teachers and we lived like gypsy’s for all of my childhood. I figure out that I attended eight different schools between K through 12, and the odd thing is that I lived in Tehran, Iran longer than any other childhood home. .
Once I got over the initial shock of moving to a country that is utterly alien from our own, I discovered I loved living in Persia. I had a freedom that would have been impossible in the States in a city of four million people, and the Iranian people are kind, generous, and a beautiful people. The bad rep they have received over the past decades is frustrating to me and has eliminated the possibility of knowing and learning from one of the oldest cultures on Earth.
To begin, we must never confuse the leadership of Iran with the people of Iran. They are as much hostages of their rulers as those who were held over a year in 1979. With that said, I now want to tell you the story of my final year in the home of my heart.
We began noticing as subtle change in Tehran 1978, in the year which motivated my family to leave the big city and moved to a place called Cha Bahar. My folks were hired to start a school for the children of construction workers who were building a naval base in the Gulf of Oman near the Straits of Hormuz, just outside of a village called Cha Bahar. The irony of this is that Ross Perot was the head of Brown and Root which then was bought out by Halliburton. So in a sense, my folks worked for Halliburton:~o
The location of Cha Bahar is very strategic and the Shah commissioned Ross Perot’s company construct a military base to protect one of the most important bodies of water in the world.
Since the school was K through 7, arrangements were made for my brother and me to school elsewhere. Terry stayed in Tehran living with friends and finishing high school