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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=80 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="36100ac0dvldtc.jpg"> <div> General Issue Blues       </div> <div> <A HREF="sonnygratzer_com1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="General Issue Blues "><U><B>Home</B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="general_issue_blues.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About The Author "><U><B>About The Author</B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="readers_comments.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Readers Comments"><U><B>Readers Comments</B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="awards___decorations_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Awards Decorations "><U><B> Awards & Decorations</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Airborne Ranger"><U><B>Airborne Ranger</B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jungle Warfare School"><U><B>School of The Americas</B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="general_issue_blues4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Order Direct"><U><B>Order Direct</B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id6.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Order Amazon"><U><B>Amazon.Com</B></U></A><B> </B><A HREF="general_issue_blues24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Song Writing"><U><B>Song Writing</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Sonny's Family</B><B>   </B><A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><U><B>Links</B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Books In The Works"><U><B>Books in the Works</B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="scrapbook_photos.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Scrapbook"><U><B>Scrapbook</B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id55.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Sounds Of Viet Nam"><U><B>Sounds</B></U></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id63.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Leaflets"><U><B>Propaganda leaflets</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> FAMILY</div> <div> My Grandchildren</div> <div> Click photo for large picture</div> <div> <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grandkids"><U><IMG SRC="1ccbea90.jpg" border=0 width="190" height="169" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <B> <head> <script language="JavaScript">  </script>  </B></div> <div>  <embed src="HTMLobj-435/bemyloveX.mid" autostart="true" hidden="true">  </div> </td> <td valign="top" height=400 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B> <head> <script language="JavaScript">  </script>  </B></div> <div> Family</div> <div> <IMG SRC="137aff70.jpg" border=0 width="175" height="247" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Kurt</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="385" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 574 WIDTH="379"><div> Steven Kurt Gratzer was born 10 May 1963, St. Patrick Hospital, Missoula, Montana. Kurt started walking in Columbus, Georgia when I was stationed at Fort Benning.  He began school in kindergarten in Germany while I was stationed there. He attended grade school in Missoula, Montana, where he excelled at Little League as a 2nd baseman and pitcher, Little Grizzly (Pop Warner model) football as a running back and safety when his teams won championships, and YMCA basketball as a guard/forward.  His interest in boxing for the Missoula Mavericks Boxing Club began while attending Missoula's elementary school.  Kurt won many amateur bouts. He also played high school football for two years, his freshman and senior years and did very well on winning teams as a safety. He developed a love for cars during this period and worked on several high horsepower, great paint-job rigs.  Kurt also enjoyed hunting and shooting as a youngster, and he excelled as a snow skier and water skier.  Kurt went on to college, spending one year in Bozeman at Montana State University before transferring to the University of Montana. His freshman year he developed a love for bodybuilding, sculpting his body for competition.  Kurt earned two separate degrees at the University of Montana: a BA in Sociology and BS in Business.  After college, and a variety of interests, Kurt joined the US Army and excelled in basic courses, including the Ranger qualification course where he was the honor graduate, allowing him to join the 2nd Battalion, 75th Rangers at Fort Lewis, Washington, and he was an expert marksman.  Injuries curtailed his Army stint and he returned to Missoula.  Kurt has a son Michael Quinn.</div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="dana"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><IMG SRC="13faff70.jpg" border=0 width="175" height="247" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Dana</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="385" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 501 WIDTH="379"><div>             Dana Lynn Gratzer Millhouse was born 21 February 1965 at the US Army Hospital, Nurnberg, Germany while I was stationed at Bamberg, Germany with the 2nd Battalion, 54th Infantry, 4th Armored Division. Dana was born with a hearing disorder due to the US Army giving her mother a Rubella (German measles) immunization during pregnancy, and Dana lost nearly all of her hearing after another Rubella shot on Easter night, 1975, while visiting in Cut Bank, Montana, with my kids' mother Janet's parents, Weldon and Lorraine Lee. Deaf in her left ear, she wears the most powerful hearing aid in her right ear and relies on lip-reading (as sign language was discouraged--and forbidden in the school system--when she was a child) because she cannot distinguish speech sounds. Dana graduated from Sentinel High School in Missoula with a 3.23 grade-point average; played basketball (starting games in her sophomore year as a forward); ran track and cross-country; swam like a fish--faster than her brothers; beat her brothers arm-wrestling and Indian-leg wrestling through age 17; and hesitantly learned to alpine ski after ear surgeries as well as to waterski. She worked at an ice cream parlor, McDonald's, and Daily's Meat Packing plant during high school, attended U of M in 1983 where she majored in physical education (and beer drinking, in which she was highly instrumental in helping her team win the Sigma Chi Derby Dayz of 1983 as an Alpha Phi sorority member), and then opted for a better life by marrying Glenn Millhouse, son of the former Missoula Chief of Police, Don Millhouse, and Hellgate High School art teacher, Kathy Millhouse, who passed away due to pancreatic cancer two weeks before the birth of their fourth child in 1991... a month before Dana graduated from college. Glenn is a former active duty Marine of seven years and a former non-commissioned officer in the Montana National Guard of 14 years (now in retired reserves and the Missoula County Fairgrounds caretaker). After the births of their first two children, Dana returned to school while still nursing the youngest, and she earned her double degree at Carroll College with a 3.38 GPA in Helena, Montana, in English writing and public relations in four years while bearing and nursing her first two daughters, the second of whom was born with a major birth defect known to few (including the medical profession) as bladder exstrophy. Dana earned her internship credits (both with a grade of A) in the Public Affairs Office at the Internal Revenue Service in 1990, as well as the Director's Office at Department of Family Services in 1991, where she was offered a job and turned it down so she could care for her fourth child. She has held lower-level positions at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana, The Missoulian, Montana Department of Transportation, and Montana Department of Military Affairs. Divorced after 18 years of marriage and still best friends, Dana and Glenn have six children. They both live in Missoula. Their six children are Sean Courtney Millhouse (Staff Sergeant stationed at Robins AB, GA; formerly stationed at Spangdahlem AB, GE; deployments to Kuwait and Qatar), Kyle Jordan Millhouse (former Marine and Green Belt Instructor, one Iraq tour, oil-rig operator in Wyoming), Rachel Lynn Millhouse (U of M student, dept. manager at Wal-Mart), Katherine Cera (K.C.) Millhouse, Mariah Nicole Millhouse, and Ryan Nicholas Millhouse.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id39.htm#dana_s_family_pictures" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grandkids"><U>Dana's Family pictures</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="516f53d0.jpg" border=0 width="245" height="317" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div>  <A NAME="mike"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>Mike</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="385" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 769 WIDTH="379"><div>             Michael Bowman Gratzer was born 14 September 1966 at the US Army Hospital in Nurnberg, Germany.  Mike also attended grade and high schools in Missoula, MT.  As a 3-year-old tyke, Mike was riding two wheel bicycles.  He excelled in sports at an early age, playing 3rd base and pitcher both in Little League and Babe Ruth League. He played Little Grizzly football as an end and linebacker when his teams won championships, YMCA basketball as a guard/forward; Mike also boxed for the Missoula Maverick Boxing Club, winning all his bouts.  In high school, Mike excelled as an end/linebacker for Sentinel High School when his team won two conference championships, and in track where he was a standout as a javelin thrower.  His sophomore record still stands.  Mike also enjoyed hunting, shooting, water skiing, and snow skiing.  He also attended the University of Montana for a short time until he decided to join the US Marine Corps, training at Camp Pendelton, CA.  He qualified as Expert in firing the .45 Caliber pistol, the M16 rifle and the 60/81mm mortars.  Mike was meritoriously promoted three times during active duty and was awarded a Meritorious Mast for heroism while serving in the Philippines during the riots at Subic Bay.  Mike served in the Marine Corps Color Guard during Corazon Aquino's ascension to the Presidency.  He never failed to reach a perfect score in physical fitness tests. Mike was a Marine Jungle expert.  He returned to try school again, then moved to Fort Collins, Colorado for a time.  He returned to Missoula where he took a job with a plastics firm, married, then moved on to Seattle, WA, where Mike continued in the plastics business, and where he became the father of Gage Vaughn Gratzer. Mike was divorced several years ago.  He developed a love for mountain bike riding during his growing years, never forgetting his love for bikes as a tiny boy.  He worked for Diamond Back Bikes and Answer Products in Southern California.  Mike is fulfilling his professional passion as a National Account Executive at Ringers Gloves in Moorpark, CA. </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id39.htm#mike_and_his_son_gage" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grandkids"><U>Mike and Family</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="rachel002.jpg" border=0 width="220" height="317" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div>  <A NAME="rachel"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>Rachel</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="385" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 496 WIDTH="420"><div>     Rachel Lee Gratzer was born 2 September 1969 in St. Patrick’s Hospital, Missoula, Montana. She attended grade school, middle school, and high school in the Missoula County School District. She excelled in sports at all levels, playing YMCA soccer, basketball, and Little League softball. She also competed in and track/field and volleyball, doing very well. Well rounded, Rachel was also a cheerleader in middle school, and acted in plays and enjoyed many other activities such as skiing and waterskiing. In high school, Rachel played four years of basketball, three years of volleyball, and one year of softball and track/field. Her basketball team won the State AA Title, as did her volleyball team, when she was Junior. Immediately upon graduating from high school, Rachel enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and served for 12 years. During this period, she served at Ramstein AB, Germany, and played basketball for the base team for three years, playing all over Europe. In 1990, she PCSd to March AFB, California, and played basketball for two years. She also served as a “Commander” on the Honor Guard, and was an expert marksman. While in California, Rachel became a mother to her son, Treyvon Michael. Rachel then PCSd to Schriever AFB, Colorado, in 1995, and became a mother to another son, Joseph Dwayne “JD”. In 1999, Rachel was Honorably Discharged from the U.S. Air Force and found her way back to Helena, Montana, where she currently resides with her two sons. Rachel became a Paralegal for a Criminal Defense Law Firm and worked that position for four years. In 2004, missing the military, she enlisted in the Montana Army National Guard, where she is currently employed as an E-7/SFC, and planning retirement. Her oldest son, Treyvon (16) was a State Champion wrestler in 2003, and plays football (QB) and basketball for Capital High School. Her younger son, JD (12), is an avid singer, and plays traveling basketball and Small Fry football. </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id39.htm#rachel_trey___jd" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grandkids"><U>Rachel's Family Pictures</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <A HREF="id39.htm#rachel_and_mg_gene_prendergast_oath_of" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grandkids"><U>Rachel and MG Gene Prendergast, oath of enlistment  MT Army National Guard.</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6afc8820.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="130" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> All Rights Reserved © 2000 by Sonny Gratzer</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>