The Alvin Miller story is an exciting story about how a delinquent juvenile

starting out paving the road of becoming an elementary school drop-out, or on his way to prison

or the graveyard like his classmate and neighborhood friends. It is a true story how a lad that

had all the odds stacked against him as he indulged in a life of crime from ages six through 13.

He would be the first to tell you he could not have made it in life without the cooperation of his

mother and the help of a middle school teacher, Mrs. Rita M. Johnson, he credits as helping to

save his life.  

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As a child growing up in elementary and middle school, he was disowned by his father. He and

some of his neighborhood friends as a six-year-old began to go off the deep end in elementary

and middle school as they indulged in truancy, a life of petty crime, and portraying themselves

as small-town bullies by committing heinous actions to break laws. Such actions were only

paving the road for the author’s journey to prison or a cold grave in a nearby cemetery.  

After a tumultuous elementary school experience by missing 90 days of school in first-grade and

having to repeat the first-grade, he was socially-promoted for the next seven years. He was a

prime candidate for the ‘school to prison pipe line’ saga! He was even expelled from elementary

school in second-grade for the remainder of the school year by Juvenile Judge Jack Rogers, ST

Lucie County's Juvenile Judge.  

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Judge Rogers expelled him for truancy, severe school and community infractions, and fighting,

etc. One of his close neighborhood friends and classmate was electrocuted in the Florida's

Electric Chair in 1996. After the electrocution, the author was called by a newspaper reporter to

talk about where his boyhood friend went wrong to receive a death penalty indictment in the

Florida Electric Chair.  

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Also, another of the author’s neighborhood friends was put to death by lethal injection in 2014

for the heinous reported murder of a prison guard and a couple in Miami, FL. TK spent over

forty years on death row until his execution on January 7, 2014. Still, some of the young boys

that the author grew up with are currently serving time on death row or life in prison. Even in the

midst of chaos and turmoil, a glimpse of light was able to shine down on this misguided youth in

the form of a seventh-grade teacher, Mrs. Rita M. Johnson giving him the chance and

opportunity to reap the harvest of the ‘Great America Dream’ Experience!  

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He went on in life to graduate from Eastern Kentucky University, The Southern Baptist

Theological Seminary and earned his Doctor of Ministry degree from Oral Roberts University.

He served over 32 years in the United States Army, retiring at the rank of Colonel. He has been

inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame in his high school, St. Lucie County Sports Hall of Fame,

and three Hall of Fame courts at EKU: Sports Hall of Fame, ROTC Colonel Battalion Hall of

Fame, and the Distinguished Service Award by the EKU International Alumni Association.