Jim Burk spent his military career with the United States Coast Guard, retiring in 1996 with the rank of captain. Naturally, wherever he and his wife, Cindy, were stationed — from Maine and Alaska to New Orleans and Maryland — they were always near water.
“We’ve always had water in the family,” Cindy Burk said. “My parents had a lake house up in Wisconsin, and when we retired, it was to a house on a lake in North Carolina.”
So how did they end up living in an expanded apartment in the Army Residence Community tower on landlocked San Antonio’s Northeast Side?…