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Posted at 2009-9-4 01:06 AM
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Happy Birthday Race Wong!
Biography for Updated Lucky Bag Edition
I entered the US Naval Academy in late June 1966, after having been chosen to represent the District of Columbia (DC), by the Three District Commissioner system at that time. I chose the Academy after having attended a military style college prep program in DC, and wished to serve my country in some capacity during the Viet Nam conflict.
After graduation in June 1970, and then served two deployments aboard a destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin, while I married in Hawaii in 1971, and served my remaining time in Guam, as head of a drug/alcohol rehabilitation facility, while attending classes for a post graduate degree from the University of Oklahoma. After my honorable discharge from the Navy in my home of record, I completed my course requirements in Norman, Oklahoma and attained an MA in Human Relations.
In 1976 I entered into service with the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), and served as a special agent for more than 21 years, while raising a family of two children with my wife. My first assignment was in New York City and thereafter requested assignment in counterintelligence and was transferred first to Monterey, CA to attend language training where I also completed course requirements for an MA in Public Administration, and thereafter was assigned to the San Francisco Division of the FBI.
The subject of my employment with the Bureau is documented in my book entitled: Their Hidden Agenda: The Story of a Chinese-American FBI Agent, which was published in October 2007 by the Dorrance Publishing Company, Pittsburgh, PA. The manuscript is also available at the following website as an “E” book: www.smashwords.com.
After my Bureau career ended abruptly in 1997, my wife and I then took over a small business in San Jose, CA and then we separated for 10 years and then reconciled in August 2008. In the interim, I spent time in southern CA, and then stayed with my parents in Hyattsville, MD for more than 4 years, caring for my dad who died from cancer in 2006. I am now back with my wife and living again in San Jose.
I have attached a link to a pictorial documentary, which is representative of our family history and my unusual origins, against incredible odds, to a Chinese father and a Hispanic mother from two entirely different countries and cultures, who met in our Nation’s Capitol, married and then established a “dynasty” of sorts in the DC area, replete with stories of triumph and despair, corruption and betrayal (as I discuss in my book), encompassing the range of human emotions and experience, for more than 6 decades. They say that “truth is stranger than fiction” and our family story is proof positive of this. The link is: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30592695&l=a3ca49f959&id=1157912426.
Robert A. Woo Sr.
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