An eight decade memoir of life in the United States and international travel including:Description of life in a tenement section of New York City during the Great Depression and WWII.Survival after being hit and run over by a six wheel meat truck at age nine.Significant contributions as an electronics engineer to the emerging aerospace, semiconductor, and computer industries.Second career as an industrial engineer with the United States Postal Service specializing in equipment modification and development to improve productivity and decrease cost.Expose of positive and negative, internal and external. practices effecting corporate performance of all the above industries.Extensive tourist international travel to six continents to observe present day lifestyles and learn past history.