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ABOUT THE PRESIDENT: - A Director, Shrine Burn Institute Colonel Straub was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. The son of the former Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, he began his military career at an early age graduating from Culver Military Academy and joining the Indiana Air National Guard before graduation from High School. During years of flying with the Air Force completing combat tours in Korea and Vietnam and earning his higher educational degrees, he worked with under-privileged and developmentally handicapped children while playing four years of profesional football. He also completed foreign tours in the Philippines, Alaska, England and Germany. After medical retirement from the Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel with over 20 years of active service, he initiated his famous "Stop Burn Injuries" program in the 1983/1984 school year. Since that time he has spoken to more than 242,000 students regarding burns, burn treatment and the things their elders do that get them burned. His passion for preventing burns results from a long standing trauma he observed from the air when one of his best friends aborted a take off, crashed, escaped his airplane only to be so badly burned that he later lost his life. Straub says, "He had skidded off the end of the runway and I had to wait to land until the crash rescue trucks got off the runway. I knew it was bad". Later I kept saying to myself, "If only he hadn't been burned so badly." And, "There's got to be a better way to treat burns". Once retired, he immediately turned to lecturing young people on the trauma, stigma, and prevention of burns. Now he has expanded his lecture subjects, bringing to light patriotism, love of flag and country, what future wars will be like using the latest technology and what the education system is doing to split our nation with multiculturalism. |