Duane's first memory was a terrifying experience of not knowing where he was. Then as he aged realized the all too scary memory was of the latter stage of being conscious in his mother's womb. Then screaming as he entered the coldness and the light of the birthing room. Duane grew up on a farm. His favorite subject was in the science field. Become the science club president. His sport was baseball, it was more brain work not brute force. "Duane put his problems away for a brainy day." Duane graduated high school in 1960. October of 63 he walked on board willingly into a space craft from another star system. That had deliberatelylanded near him during archery season. To which he has written about in the book. "Visited by Star Travelers."Duane is an Army veteran and while stationed in a missile air defense area,1967 he was one of several in a radar room that witnessed a subsonic blip, blip across the green screens and gone. To which headquarters immediately came on the speaker and said: "Erase the tapes and do not alert the civil populace." Duane's first wife gave birth to three wonderful children, two boys and a girl. Duane and his then wife risked all and started a new concrete business (Ose Mobile Concrete Inc.) and was doing extremely well until Duane lost one eye and due to complications was declared disabled, subsequently divorced. The lure of Alaska grabbed him. Became the last Federal Homesteader in USA to have filed in 1987.Under, "The Federal Homestead Act of 1862, signed by President Abe Lincoln. Duane is a trained Army survivalist and was a scout master at one time and now a writer. "Truth is stranger than fiction."
