Guess Who!

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Across
  1. 3. I grew up about 12 miles from here in Rockville, MD. Lived there for the first 22 years of my life and have not been back until this assignment.
  2. 5. I used to breed Yorkshire Terriers and helped to birth them, docked their tails and pulled out their dew claws. I even gave a puppy mouth to mouth to bring it back to life after birth.
  3. 7. I've been to the original Legoland amusement park in Billund, Denmark.
  4. 12. I lived in a converted convent in Salzburg Austria for 6 months.
  5. 13. When I was six years old, my parents took me on a week-long vacation with them to San Juan. On the first day, in this 21 story Sheraton Hotel, I wandered out of the hotel room, exploring. I was up and down the elevator, and perfectly safe, but I wasn't thinking about my parents or anything else. Their reaction was quite different.
  6. 15. I have played poker with a sitting head of the National Security Agency.
Down
  1. 1. My second cousin, David Backes, scored a goal for the Olympic Ice Hockey team and is a Captain for the St Louis Blues in the NHL. He was on the team in Vancouver and Sochi.
  2. 2. I have broken 4 different bones
  3. 4. I play 5 musical instruments: Violin, Viola, Piano, Guitar, and Ukulele.
  4. 6. I got sick during a landing on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.
  5. 8. I love to fly remote controlled helicopters.
  6. 9. I was awarded "Craziest Driver" by my high school class in the senior superlatives.
  7. 10. I once killed an Aghani goat with an accurately dropped Container Delivery System (CDS) from an MC-130E...on time and on target! The Air Force had to pay for the goat and the shack that it was housed in.
  8. 11. I'm designing a board game in my spare time.
  9. 14. I Spent a summer in an acting camp where I met Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston on the set of the movie “The Bounty Hunter.”