The Story of Me

Hey. My name is Frederick Miller and I live in Peoria, Arizona; it’s a suburb of Phoenix. I’ve lived in the Phoenix valley for almost 20 years. I grew up in a small Illinois town called Clinton and wound up here in Arizona after a six year stint in the U.S. Marine Corps. While in the Corps, I was stationed in Twentynine Palms, California and served in Desert Shield/Desert Storm back in the early 90’s when we stopped Saddam Hussein from overtaking the small oil nation of Kuwait. I moved here at the end of my enlistment with my first wife, telling her I’d give it a year and if I didn’t like it, we were moving to the Midwest. Well, I liked it here and we stayed although we divorced in ’97.  I am currently married (for the 2^nd and last time) to a San Diego girl and we have six children between us (a his, hers, and ours kinda thing).

The Marines taught me to do financials and I worked as a bookkeeper, project accountant, and finally Senior Accountant through the years. I got totally sick of numbers and had a mid-life crisis and decided to go to school. I started at Glendale Community College in 2007 and worked my way to Arizona State University West where I am attending the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College in order to become a Secondary history teacher (7^th through 12^th).

Through my life, I’ve been avid scholar of history. I’ve studied all types of history but I can honestly say the subject of “Africans in Europe” has not been one of them. I am an American Civil War fanatic and I’ve read and studied all matters of the Slave Trade, but since that is not the topic of this class I’ve got a lot to learn. I enjoy American History and hope to teach it in high school – my main eras being the Civil War and Vietnam. World History is enjoyable as well – I tend to read and study the Crusades era as well as ancient Greece and Rome.

This should be an interesting class and I hope to be able to take something away from it that I can utilize in the classroom when I get there. I look forward to these next few weeks and getting to know those that I can.

Frederick