Robert Clayton

Grandview High School

Class of 1957

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Robert Clayton - Class of 1957 - Grandview High School

First Name	Robert
Last Name	Clayton
Graduation Year	Class of 1957
Gender	Male
Current Location	Olympia, Washington
Hometown	Grandview, Washington
Relationship Status	Single
About Me	I NEVER POST ANYTHING CONCERNING HEALING OR MANIFESTING THAT I HAVE NOT RESEARCHED. I NEVER ACCEPT PROOF THAT HAS NOT BEEN RIGOROUSLY STUDIED AND RESEARCHED BY MAJOR INSTITUTIONS OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER, OR THAT THERE ARE NOT MULTIPLE CREDIBLE WITNESS TO. I PASSED MY MENSA TEST AND HAVE STUDIED AND READ VORACIOUSLY FOR OVER 65 YEARS ON THESE SUBJECTS. I HAVE AS MUCH INFO ON THESE SUBJECTS AS ANY MAN LIVING. I HAVE EXPERIENCED PERSONALLY, SOME EFFECTS OF THIS NATURE. LOOK AT MY AVATAR. IT IS A RECENT PIX. I AM 72 YEARS YOUNG. ... END OF RANT. I am Choctaw. An enrolled member of the Great Choctaw Nation. Following in my ancestors footsteps, I am an aspiring healer, studying hard. Beauty is inherent in everything. It's all a matter of perception. Vet. U.S. Navy. U.S.S. Lawrence County LST 887 Operation Hardtack. South Pacific. Ex power lifter. Chess player. Mensa. Aspiring Healer. Long time businessman. Retired now to a life of the study of healing and enlightenment. I was the volunteer director of an apprenticeship program for street people 6.5 years until after working without pay for all those years, I ran through my life savings and had to go back to work. :o) We taught them the trade of woodworking through building office furniture. Our philosophy was; give them food and they will soon be hungry again. Teach them a trade and no matter where life finds them, they can always get a job if they want one... and they will never be hungry. Some other organizations of like nature criticized us for not having too many successes, because out of 200 apprentices over that time, we only had 18 success stories of getting them off drugs and back with their families and fully employed. But I figure 18 is better than none. I think the real reason they criticized us is that we took no donations of any kind, earning the money to operate out of sales of office furniture we manufactured. And none of the staff took a salary. At any rate, I don't regret it. And would do it again if given the opportunity. Few things in life are better than seeing a clean and sober man going back to his family with a paycheck in his hand. And knowing that you had a hand in making it happen. Been around the block and down the street and up the road and around the corner. Over there, up there, down there, around there. Upside down and sideways. Around the back and in between. Been there and back again. Been to Toledo, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Seattle, Tiajuana, Long Beach, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hawaii, Einewetok and Bikini Islands, San Diego, Phoenix, Salk Lake City, Spokane, Yakima, Tri Cities, Flat Head Lake, Ellensburg, Bickleton, Hanford, Monroe, Tacoma, Mt Rainier, Mt Hood, Nevada, Sunnyside, Grandview, Portland, Umatilla, White Swan, All over California and Oregon and Washington and Idaho. Pasco, Naches, Mabton, Granger, hell, you name it. I probably been there and done that Twice. I been wound up and turned down, shot, stabbed, nearly drowned, been in a dozen car wrecks, a hundred fights, more love affairs than I can remember. Lied to, cheated on, left, divorced, stole from, locked up, turned loose and locked up again. Been hit, kicked, spit on, run down, run over and tied up. There ain't a square inch on the backs of my hands or my forearms that ain't got a scar on it. Had a broken hand and a broken heart both at the same time. Been in business, out a business, been given the business by the best and the worst in business. Looked down the business end of a pistola more than once while being held up, and been sliced up in a knife fight. More than once. Shot in the hand during a fight. Shot at more than once. Had bottles busted over my head and chairs bounced off my back in bar fights. Been thrown out of bars, banned from bars, and worked as a bouncer in bars. I been a street person and a business man. Had my pocket picked and my bank account ransacked. Once owned several furniture stores. Owned a service station, worked in several others. Had a furniture making factory, a water bed store, sold blankets by the side of the road. Collected scrap iron for drinking money. Played poker in small cafes and bars all over the Yakima Valley. Bought and sold cars. Once worked for a bail bondsman running down skips.. worst damn job I ever had. Was in the cotton fields when I was six. Cherry orchards when I was nine. Went to work as a carpenters helper when I was 15. Worked as an Iron worker, painter. Worked on farms, construction sites. etc.. Sold every decent thing I ever owned to pay the rent, and lost every woman I ever loved. Two of my kids still talk to me... the other two don't. I've had a lot of fine things laid on my table, but could never hang onto them. It's been a hell of a ride. And I don't regret a minute of it. Them as likes me, I'm a g...(read more)