How two enlisted men in different career fields meet and became friends on the way to Vietnam. Upon arrival in Vietnam, Art discovered he didnt have any duty assignment and was advised to seek his own. This story depicts how he found an assignment and the several incidents that Art experienced during his tour.

This story is about a young sergeant on his first overseas assignment which was the Philippines. He formed a close friendship with a Filipino husband and wife who led him on exciting adventures including a political rally that was dangerous for him to be at and meeting up with a member of the Hukbalap guerrillas. He also experienced the many cultural differences of the Philippines in the 1950s.

This is the story of a baby boy left at an orphanage in 1932 and adopted by an older couple. He reveals his adventures in growing up in Florida including hitchhiking to the State Fair at the age of ten or when he saw a two year old dead body in a glass coffin. We follow him through childhood and his first year of military service. His loving parents and faith in God led him through some difficult times.

In 1998, Professor Humes and Doctor Ryals traveled with Edward Nixon, the brother of the President, to the People's Republic of China. While retracing Nixon's steps, they interviewed those Chinese Foreign Service experts who had planned the president's meetings with Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai. These protégés of Chou En-lai ended their diplomatic careers as envoys in Anglophone nations such as the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia.During interviews with Humes, Ryals, and Edward Nix...

“These are remarkable and poignant stories that need to be told.” —Ken BurnsMore than six million people watch Bob Dotson’s Emmy award-winning segment, American Story, on NBC’s Today Show. For the last four decades, Dotson has traveled the country searching out inspiring individuals who quietly perform everyday miracles. In the process, he has become the treasured cartographer of America’s heart and soul.Today’s news is overwhelmingly grim; it’s al...

A social worker's experiences and the times in the mid 1970s working with the needy at the Salvation Army in Pontiac, Michigan, in an unsafe neighborhood and she had a bodyguard. It describes the variety of people and problems she encountered from dangerous situations to filling orders for kitchen chairs.There are also stories about WW 11 veterans, alcoholism, first city to have forced busing, Hoffa's disappearance, and what life was like without some of the technology conveniences ...

This book consists of 36 humours short stories about everyday life. Topics cover: how to Stay Young Forever, The East Coast Ghost, Home Invasion, The Sex Diet, Santa and the Happy Hooker, I am Dying of Baldness, Your Mate as a Vehicle, The Dancer and the Border Cops, What is Your Sexual Number and many more.

A love story-- Navy style. One woman, three men, one naval air training unit on a small island in the pacific northwest. Total entanglement as passions explode between a senior officer, his wife, a very un-inhibited junior officer and a former lover who arrives in enlisted uniform with a secret assignment.

Can you imagine spending twelve years of your life behind the walls of the worlds largest walled maximum security prison? What if you were sent there for a crime you didnt commit?This is just one of the many unbelievable events of Richard Herrs life.He turned 21 on a Chinese junk, with fellow Marines preparing to execute some of the early reconnaissance for the conflict that eventually became the Vietnam War. Upon his discharge from the Marines, he married into an Italian f...

Twenty-Four poems about thoroughbred wagering ups and downs and some of the colorful and smitten individuals involved.

James F. Coker was born in Thomaston, Georgia. He grew up there but left at an early age. He was in the United States Air Force S.A.C. division. This took him to a number of foreign countries when he was still at a young tender age. But running with experienced well-trained troops taught him more about life that he was even ready for. Growing, living, and working in an environment of this sort can create loads and loads of true stories. Getting to where Jim is today is but the tip of the p...

Safe Harbor A Boy's Story is a memoir of a lonely boy growing up in a dysfunctional family during World War II and the struggle to find his way as a teen and young man in the fifties. Set during World War II and the early fifties, Safe Harbor a Boy's Story chromicles my struggle as a lonely boy in a dysfunctional family. It began as a memoir for my children, but when completed, I realized it was much more than that. Its about victory over abuse, not physical, as in "A Child called It" and ...