User:Vincent H. Bartning
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Vincent Henry Bartning co-founded the USA KIA/DOW Family Foundation (USAKIA) and currently holds the position of president and assistant Webmaster. Mr. Bartning envisions relief of families of U.S. armed forces who are killed in action (KIA) or died of wounds (DOW). A graduate of De Anza College in ’92 and ’96 and San Francisco State University (SFSU) '09, he also has KIA in the family. His grandfather, John Wallace Rich, was KIA in World War II, and his cousin, Louis Bartning, was KIA in Korea, both U.S. Army volunteers under 21. An editor using the pseudonym John Wallace Rich on Wikipedia since 2005 and here on Citizendium since 2007, Vincent hopes to see a better environment for truthful and authoritative articles here.
Mr. Bartning got his BA in political science from SFSU in 2009. Vincent already had two associate degrees from De Anza College, the first in liberal studies, the second in Spanish with honors. He achieved a 3.59 at SFSU.
The college experience has made him want to become a lawyer, though he has even completed scientific calculus. He has two first cousins who are lawyers. He has had to complain about school even with his family's educational history, including a Bartning who graduated Cambridge in the late 19th century and became a famous lawyer, a first-cousin but three-times removed.
He traveled in his twenties to Europe, Asia, even North Africa, not to mention North and Central America, including much of the United States. However, academic from the start, Vincent was born while his dad finished up a B.S.E.E. at Arizona State University (ASU) in 1964. The family moved out of houses they bought to married-student-housing-like residences at UCLA and Stanford, where his dad also graduated with a Master of Finance and MBA respectively. His mother took him to classes at UC Berkeley, he remembers, where she got her A.B. in anthropology and later graduate-level classes in the mid 70s at Brandeis. As well as travel, Vincent studied at institutions in Mexico, Spain, and Costa Rica. Some course work he did in Spain and Mexico transferred through campuses of the University of Massachusetts.
His father has done a lot of work for the electronics industry, even designing the first "cost-effective" semiconductor memory. The elder Bartning also held upper-level-management positions, one reason the Bartnings could later found a nonprofit for KIA and DOW families. Other family members with academic credentials include his great-grandmother, Dr. Beatrice Gelber.
Mr. Bartning also belongs to several patriotic organizations such as the Sons of the American Revolution, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and the Sons of the American Legion (SAL). He has held officer positions in all three organizations and also a state-level-commission position with SAL. Understandably, Vincent has had an interest in military history since a boy, and some of his course work also reflects that, not to mention nonprofit management.