Dave Oliver is one of Dorotha's three children. He was a naval officer who rose to the rank of rear admiral and later to a senior position in the Pentagon. From the day he was born, no matter how formal the setting or how august the attendance, Dorotha referred to this son as "Davy." < p/> After leaving Indiana for college, Dave spent thirty-two years in the Navy. He and his spouse, Linda, lived in the states or countries of California, Connecticut, Japan, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington, most of them more than once. Dave did Navy things. Linda, a lawyer licensed where they lived, plus her own home state of Idaho, worked in private practice until it became clients demanded she sue her husband, when, for the sake of more cordial dinner table conversations, she shifted to legal and supervisory roles in the federal government (White House, Pentagon, etc.). < p/> After the Navy, Dave ran several small businesses and worked for some very large ones. He was a political appointee in the Clinton and the George W. Bush administrations, serving in the Defense Department. He and Linda both represented the United States Government in dozens of foreign countries and were members of the Coalition forces in Iraq. Linda and Dave now live in Northern California, in the same town as both their sons and their three grandchildren. His other published books can be found at daveoliverbooks. com.
