The Odyssey of Danny Helm (ePub)

Hill DeMent is a retired teacher. He grew up in a small town in the middle of Missouri. He graduated from high school in nineteen forty six. He went to live with his aunt and uncle and worked in a hardware store in Red Fork, Okalahoma. He wanted to work his way through college but he soon found that he had to be a veteran to get a job near a college campus. He learned the government was still paying for the GI Bill so he joined the Army Air Force. He was in the Air Force in Alaska when the Korean War started as a heavy equipment mechanic. While he was in Alaska he took a course in mineralogy from the University of Alaska and became a member of The Alaskan Prospectors Society. After two years in Alaska he was rotated back to the lower forty eight. He was stationed at San Bernardino. He trained with a material recovery unit. Since he hadn't had leave for over two years he was sent home for thirty days. On his return to San Bernardino he found his outfit had shipped out. It was suppose to go to France and was sent to the Gulf and boarded a ship. It took them through the Panama Canal and on to Korea. He was sent to another Air Base and put in charge of an upholstery shop. He received a letter from his material recovery outfit; they had sixty percent casualties in their field operations crew. That was the crew that he would have been put in charge of. He applied for early separation and it was granted. He was five days late enrolling in the Chanute, Kansas Junior college. From there he entered Pittsburg State University and earned a BS degree in Industrial Arts with a minor in science. Sputnik went up and no school wanted an Industrial Arts teacher, they wanted Science teachers. He started teaching Science and Arithmetic in a junior high. The National Science Foundation offered him stipends to go to summer school. He earned enough credits to receive an MS degree in Natural Science. It included courses in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Geology, Astronomy and Meteorology.

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