David Haave Wikipedia

Early Life

David Haave was born in 1973, in Ojai California, to parents Debra Ellis and Nels Kin Haave. He was raised in Ventura California with the sunny beaches he holds near to his heart, and is a landmark to the author’s greatest inspirations in his works. He has six siblings, Daniel, Michael, John, Angelina, Misti, and Brandi. David began writing at the age of five in his kindergarten class with the influence of his teacher at his school Snoqualmie Elementary; the school with the views of his favorite mountain in the world; Mt. Si. He played around the mountain growing up in the Washington state forests, while pretending being a soldier running through the woods. The author, as a child, had a close connection to the amazing beauty of how God made the earth, and the author became a believer early on. From his earliest memory he was praying to God over the oceans and the great Mt. Si, and thanking God for the beautiful creations.

While in the author’s youth his parents divorced. David lived mostly with his mother and his passing & loving grandmother, Katherine Joane Durray. Both his mother and grandmother are artists in their own rights. His mother is a pianist who played & sang for family functions since his early childhood, and his grandmother was a canvas painter all throughout her life; creating her visions of many ocean scenes. David had the great opportunities to look upon both their talents in the arts to inspire to, and he loved it as a child how they created their art in their own unique style.

In David’s early childhood, he had the enjoyment of many walks on the Ventura beach pier with his grandmother, as she created painting ideas. His mother sang with his walks also were cherished memories the author reflects positively on in his adult life. These mile long walks on the pier as a child, opened up the world to the author; creating his wide vision early on for helping ALL children throughout the world in some way. In addition, growing up in an artistic family surrounding him, by age 5, he began writing poetry to express his emotions for love, and short story novel writing for the love he was missing in his life from family separations.

Flying alone as a child is a memory of the divorce to this day the author ponders, as when he looked out the plane window and wondered how the birds could fly so high. Tears fell down his dimpled cheeks looking out, because he was thankful seeing families of birds at high altitudes; families of birds together working as one. With his broken family on the tarmac below, this by far made it difficult on his heart dealing with the emotions of divorce immediately missing his mother and grandmother 30,000 feet below. Separation weighed heavily on his youth, but he would say to this day, “it made me stronger to love from afar, helping me as an adult, while deployed in War away from family.” David lived his life as a child with the great parable his grandmother spoke, “absence makes the heart grow fonder Grandson,” which gave him great comfort in knowing he would always be loved no matter how far the distance was separating him from the love he was missing at certain times. The plane ride & divorce alone made him stronger to love overall make the good out of hard times.

David’s father, Nels Kin Haave, had picked him up from the airport for the first time since the divorce, nervous and shaken little David was; the young author not knowing who or what his father looked like. The reunion, however, was a pleasant warm hug with his father, and his father’s soon to be wife (Elizabeth Haave). To settle David, his dad looked down at him and smiled with the words I love you son. The interaction, stuck with a smile, David has never forgotten.

Military Service

David first enlisted into the U.S. Army and left for basic training at the field artillery base Fort Sill Oklahoma. His first day of basic training was on 28 August 1996. Private Haave’s first experiences were Soldiers being loaded and rushing off cattle trucks into formations to be accompanied by shouting drill sergeants. He enjoyed the entirety of the U.S. Army Armed Forces; to include the motivating Drill Sergeants; who also became like father figures teaching David to be independent in adulthood. For him, being a part of great teams with his fellow soldiers, and accomplishing the missions first and foremost, was supported with the awesome camaraderie he loved. As a soldier, he had one great memory during his training, it was when he was caught walking with his head down one day, and when one of his sergeants saw this he said, “Soldier, keep your head up and feel proud of being a soldier, and a man of honor in serving our great Nation.” This was the first day he knew that he was a man, and he was a soldier for his Country. God, Country, and family he has forever lived proudly by ever since!

David did his technical training for the Army as a Chemical Equipment Repair Specialist, at the military base, Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. He worked on water purification systems, JP8 (Military Fuel) operating systems, environmental conditions in the safe transport of fuel, and was an Honor Graduate top of his class. The training was under intense pressure, to acclimate in the theater of War, under the conditions for the possibilities of going to war with Iraq.

His first duty assignment began at Fort Stewart, Georgia. After receiving all of his classes and his equipment, he was relocated to the rapid deployment base Hunter Army Airfield, GA. The city of Savannah, GA, became his home. Settling in, David was near the beaches of Tybee Island off the Atlantic, and was blessed he would be close to the ocean as he was in his early life. The author remembers the first day he had ever put his feet in the Atlantic miles away from home, and the Pacific memories came back to his heart. No matter the ocean, the author was able to walk the shores of beaches as he once did as a child, and he grew as a soldier for the love of America on the East Coast across the whole Nation to the West Coast.

His first deployment overseas, with his Army unit 110th Quartermaster Company, flying into a mission in Egypt. The mission was titled Bright Star 1997, and it was a collective training exercise with 11 other allied Countries; this all in preparation for the possibilities for entering Iraq for the second war with Saddam Husein. The soldier in David shined working side by side with his Battalion Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Stump. His skills learned in his Advanced Individual Training on fuel operating systems flourished; testing Jet A-1 fuel with additives to produce the JP-8 required by U.S. aircraft. During the 1997 exercise, the U.S. Air Force encountered a fuel shortage and the Egyptians came up with the chemical additives to balance fuel levels for the Air Campaign to be a success. David Received his Overseas Ribbon, and the Colonel honored him with the prestigious award the United States Army Achievement Medal for his dedicated service.

Specialist Promotable David Haave served his 3 years successfully and received an Honorable Discharge for his impeccable service (1996-1999). He chose the option to be placed on in-active status; where he could be called back to the Army if war was to break out and they needed experienced soldiers. This lasted for the next five years to be called back in uniform in a moment’s notice.

David now at this point had become a civilian, but he didn’t go too far from helping the Country. He took a US Federal Contracting job, (1999-2002), on the Airfield in Savannah. There he worked alongside US Soldiers testing fuel systems for refueling aircraft. David performed Aqua Glow tests on fuel stored on the military base Pump Stations. He checked and insured miles of pipes throughout the base, for any environmental hazards, and transferred millions of gallons of fuel per year with the contracting company.

Education During Two Wars: During his Military service David worked on all his time off towards a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. He took classes in the evening and on weekends with Saint Leo University. After his Military obligations, he was awarded a scholarship to attend a great Political Science program at Armstrong Atlantic State University. He was also utilizing his benefit for serving in the Armed Forces, the Post 9/11 Montgomery GI Bill, for his Honorable Service after the Twin Towers of New York fell. This time period two Wars were going on simultaneously and David worked 12 hour shifts on the airfield. As a Federal contractor, his part in the war was getting proper fuel levels for the aircraft to deploy Soldiers overseas. David moved around a lot because of the Wars, and he took a position as a Civil Service employee on his next assignment on the Military Base Fort Lewis, WA. There he ran the largest fuel facility on base and worked on his degree. He enrolled at Saint Martin’s University, Lacey, WA. After a year on Fort Lewis, David switched gears in his profession, and transferred to the Military Base Fort Carson, Colorado, and there he worked on the base as an academic supervisor for getting soldiers into colleges (2007). There were many soldiers returning home from the wars and needed help to figure out what to do after their service; Afghanistan War began 7 Oct 2001; and the Iraq War 7 Mar 2003. During this period he was enrolled full time at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, taking Master Degree level courses. However, this was also a time of his life he felt he wasn't doing enough during two wars going on for his Country. Instead of being called up while he was on inactive service, David decided to set his education aside and to re-enlist on his own efforts to go to a unit in Germany, from there he knew he would deploy to Iraq. David called up his recruiter in Ventura, CA, where his grandmother was living. There he volunteered to a rapid deployment Company, and two weeks later he was in Iraq fighting for America against the Global War on Terrorism.

In the War

Loading up on a C-130 for a Combat dive into Tikrit, Iraq, Camp Speicher, would be David’s new home for the years of 2004-2005. This was Saddam Hussein's birthplace, Sunni dominated in the center of Iraq. Heavy firefights and mortar attacks outside the base occurred often; on the Forward Operating Base (FOB) Camp Speicher. One early morning he was walking back to Maintenance Headquarters, quiet in the dark, where his unit quarters for sleep was a bombed building, and a Mortar Landed about a football field away from him; it was this night he was running for cover and tore his meniscus and his Iitibial band shrunk up around his patella making it impossible to straighten his knee. Soon after he was medically evacuated on a Chinook helicopter to Ali Al Salem Air Base. This base triaged David and he was loaded on medical transport C-130 onto medical cots stacked three patient high, and roughly 50 rows of soldiers in very bad conditions. The C-130 landed on the FOB Camp Anaconda, Balad Iraq, where David would spend the next 3 weeks stabilizing before being shipped to Kuwait for further right knee treatment. During this Hospital stay, David called back home to speak to his daughter Claudia, then she was 5, and his daughter wanted bedtime stories to sleep to. So David wrote a collection of short stories for her. The stories he wrote, he kept in his cargo pockets of his desert combat uniforms, throughout the duration of his deployment. It was these stories he kept until he got home that were published into children’s books that kids read today. While in Kuwait at US base Camp Arifjan, David went into Kuwait city on a small bus with eight other soldiers, a Kuwaiti driver, and all soldiers needing MRI’s at the Kuwait Mowasat Hospital. An Egyptian Doctor took images of the knee damages and David had the choice to return to Germany, or go back to Iraq on a medical profile. He chose to go back to the War zone to be with his band of brothers; his soldiers. His love for Country and his fellow soldiers finished the deployment to Iraq 24 December 2005; when his unit, 17th Signal Battalion, arrived back to Kitzigin Germany. David had two right knee operations and was Honorably discharged to return home to American soil, 6 May 2006. When David got off the plane he kissed the ground and proceeded to the baggage claim where his daughter came running to him, wearing a beautiful white and blue dress. He picked her up and swirled her around as if they were both dancing in the air. As he sat her down, she attempted to help him carry his 100 lbs duffel bags. He smiled and helped her drag the one she was trying to move to the truck. This moment of War forever cherished because he made it home safe to his little love that kept him going in war to return home to her. David loves her very much!

Political Views

David ran as an Independent for the US Congressional 4th District in the great state of Missouri 2020; unfortunately he had to drop out of the race because he was diagnosed with bladder cancer. He treated the cancer and has become a cancer survivor. David will be running for the same seat in 2024 against his opponent Mark Alford; who David feels doesn't take care of Veterans & Military Soldiers in any of his bills suported. David establishes his political foundation on the grounds of his philosophy for Taking Care of America’s Children First, and not one penny should leave US Congress without doing so. Veterans & Community love are important to his heart, and David as a Congressional Representative plans to care for America first before helping any other Nation; living by the principle “you can’t help your neighbor without taking care of your own house first.” His plans are to get his Army cot and tent, pack it in his car, and travel to all the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Disabled American Veterans (DAV), and American Legions all throughout the state. In addition, with his Campaign efforts, David will visit many libraries and schools along the way to teach the children how to make their own books and promote education with a multicultural approach in eliminating cultural bias. His love for God, Country, & Family he will share his loyalty and love to all 24 Counties and many more in the great state of Missouri! Making America 1st!