Of Bullets, Bombs, and Armored Cars, My Life Adventures

About the Book

This book is an easy reading biography of the amazing life of Scott J. Harden and how he survived being shot at as a child because his mother was one of the first female union presidents, and again later in life in a second attempt against him by a mad woman. It tells of his living in the forest in a Girl Scout camp as a child, then later living with people like the president of a European country, then becoming a merchant marine officer sailing in the oceans, dropping bombs from helicopters on secret targets, and helping the communist empire to fall. All these are part of his biography and life. He also built the first US satellites that went into space, and he secretly put his autographs inside so they would be there two thousand years later for someone to see and wonder about when the first US spacecraft will finally fall to Earth.

About the Author

Scott J. Harden was born on September 28, 1930 at Syracuse, New York. His father was a medical doctor, and his mother was a daughter of an Italian singers promoter in Mexico and later of Methodism in Alaska. His mother also was one of the first woman union presidents in the United States and got into trouble with political activists outside of her 20,000 person union. This led to Scott being shot at to force Mrs. Harden out of the union, it worked and Scott Harden's family moved to a Chicago suburb. Here he even had the opportunity to live with the President of Czechoslovakia for a short time. Scott attended a number of Universities and Colleges starting with Allegheny College and produced a degree from Rockford University. He also attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado where he worked on a PhD until the University records were obliterated in a politically motivated attack on the organization. He also attended the State University of Iowa, where he was in the Physics Department under James van Allen and where he built some of the very first U.S. satellites. He says his name is written inside several satellites that will be in orbit for several thousand years. After attending various colleges he moved to Mexico and then became an electronic navigator in the Gulf of Mexico. He had obtained a Radio Officers and other Merchant Marine licenses in the United States which led into doing a large number of marine jobs for the United States Navy, the Department of Defense, CIA, and such in about 20 countries. These projects were all secret and will not be described in detail here. Scott married a woman of German extraction who was discovered to have serious mental problems only after having two children. She attempted to shoot Scott some 20 times, from a very remote location, and that was the end of the marriage. Scott's military experience allowed him to survive this attack and get divorced. He moved to Washington, D.C. where he started work for the Voice of America and immediately went overseas to Europe and Korea among his many jobs. In Europe he had the chance to work with a large number of Russians and report beck to Ronald Reagan that Russia in 1985 was falling apart. A branch of the Government attempted to use Scott's Near East knowledge and pressed him to move to the Near East, something he knew was hazardous, so he instead moved to Alaska for the Federal Aviation Administration. He was also an aircraft pilot and a helicopter pilot so it fit nicely. He later retired from the FAA in Alaska and lived on a large lake north of Anchorage.