W R BlocherWilliam R. Blocher was born in 1949 in the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, MD, the third of seven. He graduated from West Springfield High School in Northern Virginia in 1968 and enlisted in the U.S. Navy two weeks after graduation. He was honorably sepaated in 1972 and graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Bachelor of Journalism in 1976. He worked as a reporter and copy editor in Michigan for five years, and then as an editor at newspapers in North Dakota, Virginia and New Jersey, ending his 41-year career in Lakeland, FL. He has studied history and the Holocaust both in college and since. Amy and Bill married in 1999 at Temple Emanuel in Lakeland, FL, and share five children and two grandchildren. Read More Read Less