Joe Vitovec came to this country from Czechoslovakia in 1950 after escaping from the communist regime in 1948 and spending two years in various refugee camps in Germany, France, and Italy. He spent the last forty years as an director and developer of training programs and training stimulators for the Air Force. He has studied history and art at the Texas Christian University, urban studies at the University of Texas, and was an instructor in political science at the Tarrant Community College in Fort Worth, Texas. He lives in Anacortes, Washington.