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"Soldiers of a Foreign War" presents the Vietnam War in all its conflicted complexity. It is told from the enlisted soldiers' perspective and deals with the American and Vietnamese's, North and South, all teenagers, experiences as they leave their families and enter their countries' respective armies. The story lines follow two American infantry platoons led by sergeants Cado and Eldridge, a three-man NVA combat cell comprised of Chi, Duan and Thuy and Sp. Steve Aiken a medic in the surgical hospital. The action takes place in six months during 1969-70, in War Zone C, northwest of Saigon.The daily misery of living and fighting in the jungle and rice paddies for these men is unimaginable. The planning, execution and aftermaths of combat operations, is presented in detail. The novel is unique in its descriptions of the wounded and their fates. Most war novels will say, "Joe got hit and was evac'd to the hospital." My book tells exactly what happened when Joe got to the hospital. The variety of destructive wounds required immediate surgeries. That was the function of the surgical hospital but the toll taken on the staff has not been told to the extent that this novel does.

Becoming a successful private practice lactation consultant is about so much more than your passion for helping families. You need a solid infrastructure, rock-solid practices, and confidence in your policies. This book will hold your hand from before you pass the exam through the day-to-day workflow of private practice, and on to ideas and inspirations to help you take your private practice to the next level. Throughout the book, I've integrated up-to-date recommendations on technology and related issues, and use inclusive language and promote equity for families and within our profession.You've fallen in love with lactation work, now acquire the tools, training, and resources you need to organize your business, develop a client workflow, market your services, and navigate difficult situations so that you can cultivate a sustainable, enjoyable, and successful private practice.

Six Days to Zeus: Alive Today is currently optioned by Phoenix Pictures to become a blockbuster movie. Based on a true story.On August 6, 2003, Task Force Arc Angel is 30 minutes from extraction after 26 months on a covert operation deep in denied territory. The highly classified organization known as "the Activity," answerable only to the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States, is mistaken for an Iraqi unit, and attacked by friendly forces.Of the seven members of the team, only one, Chief Warrant Officer Samuel Hill, made it out alive.During the subsequent investigation, Chief, now paralyzed and homeless, is charged with six counts of premeditated homicide.This is Chief's story."Alive Day" is currently optioned by Phoenix Pictures to become a blockbuster movie. Watch for the rest of the series as it becomes available!

African American Warrant Officers - Their Remarkable History is a compilation of articles, biographies, and stories about African Americans who served or are serving in the United States Army Warrant Officers Corps. The book is in conjunction with the 100th Anniversary of the Warrant Officers Corps (1918-2018).There is an African proverb that says "Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."This historical book tells the history of African American Army Warrant Officers. Their history is rich and their achievements and contributions to the United States and the United States Army are remarkable. This book allows African American Army Warrant Officers to tell their stories.The stories include 84 year old Chief Warrant Officer Three (Retired) Julius Green, the first African American deep sea diver in the U.S. Army; CW5 (Retired) Rufus N. Montgomery, Sr., the first African American Warrant Officer inducted into the Order of Eagle Rising Society; and CW4 (Retired) Leonard Dungey, who at age 95, shared his Army story in his autobiography "The Best Man I Can Be". These and other stories are a part of fiber of African American and Military history.

On the muggy Massachusetts morning of August 31, 2013, a driver discovered a motionless dog lying in the middle of a road in Quincy, Massachusetts. When he stepped out of his vehicle and walked closer, he realized a small female Pit Bull Terrier mix. Barely alive, she wore fresh spots of blood on her head and was unable to stand or walk. The driver and his friend sought immediate help for the dog whose fate was uncertain.The discovery sparked a series of investigations and court proceedings which would cover a near five-year span and shatter the hearts of millions. While state laws relating to animal cruelty would improve, For many individuals, the emotional scars caused by the events would last a lifetime.

Laughter in the Wind is filled with mystery, romance and faith. When red-haired and petite Abbie Miller from England comes to the Jackson Ranch in western South Dakota, her main objective is to care for three bedraggled little kids until their mother returns in the spring. She tackles her job with professionalism, but soon reaches her limit of politeness with Torrie McGovern, the cowgirl school teacher who is positive hard working Wade Jackson will be hers after his wife leaves him.Torrie immediately senses Abbie is not only trouble, but serious competition as well. She goes out of her way to belittle her, but finds herself in the line of fire when she arouses the full fury of the irritated red head. It looks like the eternal triangle, but hold on to your hats. A blue-eyed story teller wanders into the mix. Will he kiss the redhead, or is it the school teacher that catches his eye? And what about Mrs. Wade Jackson? As busy as she is being a waitress, a student, and the singer with The Wild Boys Plus One, she still can't forget the horror of the night the Jackson ranch house tried to kill her.

A collection of short stories and tales that dramatizes the realities of working men, women, families, and loners. Whether it's the discovery of old secrets or the pressures of work and family, the characters in this collection aim to do what is right for themselves and for their loved ones. They try to live their lives with meaning, while a loud, indifferent world aims to reduce them to nothing but the means to an end. From the first story to the last, the characters go about their business only vaguely aware of the larger forces controlling their worlds, and yet determined to live on their own terms. Some characters fight and some go with the flow, while all face their options with as much courage and focus as they can muster in the circumstances. In the first story, Ralph quits his job to protect the reputation of an eccentric customer. In "The Screw," Joe discovers that his brother has been lying to him, a lie that threatens to bring down his world. Caleb, highschool drop-out, wants to head west, but discovers a murder that he chooses to keep to himself.

The hit television series, Seinfeld, was once described as "a show about nothing." The same could be said of Particularly Peculiar People. Although the events in her life are of little consequence, B. Lynn views them through a curiously distorted lens that turns "something about nothing" into "something about something." In this collection of vignettes, B. Lynn wades through the muck of childhood, adolescence and adulthood, keenly observing the absurd and learning valuable life lessons:• Getting too chummy with God is not conducive to living a long and healthy life• Fingers make convenient playmates • It is not a good idea to aggravate her mother's eyebrow• It is impossible to hum Jimi Hendrix's version of the Star Spangled Banner • Grandmothers are physically disgustingWickedly humorous and irreverent, with an undercurrent of poignancy as B. Lynn exposes her own vulnerabilities and abiding love for the people she so mercilessly caricaturizes, Particularly Peculiar People begins in the 1950s and continues until B. Lynn is older than she would like.

"America is hard to see," observed Robert Frost, for America never stops moving, speeding always toward the promise of a future that is elusive, if not illusory. The American is a wayfarer who knows no rest, who is almost pathologically agitated. The American soul, restive and turbulent, finds its being in perpetual motion. There is no staying put, no sending down roots deep into the soil. Rather, there is in America, wrote D. H. Lawrence, only "the incarnate mystery of the open road." "Dark Fields: Poems and an Essay" offers a more chastened, and chastening, vision of the American past and present, emphasizing deliberation, restraint, forbearance, and responsibility in place of the exuberant feeling and ecstatic sensation that accompanies an America that is moving "forward then and now and forever." Standing within, but also in critical opposition to, the poetic tradition that Walt Whitman established, the poems in this volume question the American hope of millennial perfection. An expression of dissent, they counter the official American optimism, and instead cast doubt on the conviction that America is the City of God and that Americans are His Chosen People.

Simply put, Memories Under the Giving Tree explores the daily life of a young girl, who is placed in an orphanage by the Courts, after her mother is declared "unfit". The inner turmoil of fighting with the reality of being taken from her family, and literally separated from her brothers is terribly difficult for a six year old to grapple with. Authority and peer pressures she face test her tenacity and prideful spirit. She cries herself to sleep many nights, wanting to be reunited with her mother and brothers.She is a stubborn, willful, child who can be aggravating, and at the same time charming. She is a rebel and loves adventure. If life is boring, she finds a way to make things happen. However, having no other choice, she learns to cooperate and halfway behave. The other half is another situation. Her antics and creativity both get her in trouble, and save her from herself.Manipulation, rudeness, and temper slowly transform into cooperation, respect and self control. Early on, she is drawn to an isolated, grand tree at the back of the property. She wanders down the road, and discovers a freedom she desired.With permission, she takes her problems, frustrations, excitements, accomplishments, isolation, wonders and sadness to the Tree. Here she cries, laughs, sings, tells stories some real, most not. Here, she finds a place of solitude. There are no voices answering her questions, or advice helping with decisions that need her attention. It is a place to be alone and think. She can revive her inner spirit.Years later, she realized that this was her "God Tree". And the many loving, caring people she encountered were like the branches of the tree. They supported her and challenged her to grow. She learned many lessons at the orphanage, and the most important one was "all children are worth saving."

Journey through the Infinite Mind takes the reader on an exploration of the basic neuroscience of dementia and how its progression affects the brain and perceptions of the person experiencing it.The spirituality is theoretical and metaphysical in nature. It addresses the question, "If we are spiritual beings having a human experience, what could be the spiritual purpose to millions of souls living with dementia?"Included are practical tips on care intermingled with first person narratives and empathy building exercises that enable the reader to step into the shoes of a person with dementia.The information in this book is designed to raise questions and encourage the reader to think for themselves, formulating their own opinions. It presents an opportunity to see beyond the physical losses and disabilities and gain a more spiritual perspective of what the dementia experience could be.

Larissa (Lara) Crowell is a registered nurse with four young children. Now that her husband has made the transition from police officer to attorney, she hopes to be able to remain at home with their four young children. The sudden death of her husband causes her to have to return to work. This is the story of her adjustment and triumphs as she learns to combine both the world of being a breadwinner and a parent. It also traces her eventual meeting of the second great love of her life, and of her learning to trust him enough to blend him into her close family with her children. Sometimes the challenges you anticipate are not the ones that actually occur.

This book is about the growing years a boy who was part of a large family during the nineteen forties and fifties in the Missouri Ozarks. Life is filled with humorous events. The book is about these humorous times and events. As you read, the book will make you laugh, other parts will make your imagination kick into gear and you may feel a tear run down your cheek.The setting of the book is the Missouri Ozarks which gives it a hillbilly flavor. If you enjoy humor from a young person's propspective you will, no doubt, find youreself re-reading this book.For the older readers I am sure they will identify with many of the conditions mentioned and will recall similar times in their own life.I pray my stories make you laugh or at the least bring a smile to your face.

Maddog Malone has lived a life of high adventure and high stress working as a consultant for various big-city mobs. After a health scare, he decides to give up that life style and retire. He lands in Puerto Rico looking to make a new home and life for himself, and using his own aircraft, start a small airline charter business.With a dubious past like his, however, settling down to a quiet existence proves futile. Standing in his way are a number of aggrieved former associates with scores to settle. Almost immediately after touching down, Maddog finds himself plunged into a world of corrupt bureaucrats, saboteurs, local gangs, foreign mobsters and blood feuds. Even his friends harbor secrets, and nobody, it seems, is about to let Maddog go quietly into the breezy, tropical sunset.

Comes the Electric Circus is a novel that reflects the tumultuous changes from the traditional 1950's to the mind-blowing 60's. The story of the romance between two young Manhattanites, at a time when New York became the world's capitol of finance and the arts, captures the evolution of their love in the midst of the radical developments in the social and intellectual shifts that re-shaped America. Working in the lively television and magazine communication business, the couple witnesses conventional conservative values spin out of control with the advent of the sexual revolution, the Beats, the Boomers, cool jazz, new journalism, the rise of television and the continued escalation of the Cold War and Space Race. How does the young couple survive the mayhem and maintain their closeness?Alice Casey is one of the "Today Show Girls" who brighten up life in Manhattan. Jim Mahoney is a would-be writer learning the fast-paced magazine business. Their love story flourishes in the bright settings of Manhattan: cocktails at the Plaza, concerts at Carnegie Hall, ballet at City Center, weekends in the Hamptons visits to the Newport music Festivals and Tanglewood.On their journey, they listen to cool jazz, argue with the Beats, come across the New York Intellectuals, discover new journalism and the New Theater. They were there at the creation of the of the forces that would fully emerge in the tumultuous 1960's.

Have you given up on trying to make changes in your life that last? Too often we believe the problem is a lack of willpower, but it isn't. More than likely, you haven't been able to figure out strategies that support your efforts to meet goals, heal your emotions, and change stubborn habits. Learn the PARDA Process: 5 Steps from Wishful Thinking to Sustained Change to discover what works for you-not everyone else. Enable your head and heart to work in tandem as you identify specific steps towards your goals and dreams. Figure out what obstacles might derail you, and how to easily work around them. When your emotions threaten to overwhelm you, the PARDA Process will show you how to step back and disengage from painful situations, including events that happened years ago. Heal hurts and let them go so you can move on in your life instead of being stuck. Along with gently correcting stubborn habits, learn to savor your life, and focus on what is going right. Engage your senses and appreciate what you already have in the moment.

It's never too soon to start your son's or daughter's college search. After all, the choice of a college is one of the most important decisions your family will make. But how do you go about making this decision? Where do you start? Let's start in your own backyard.Ohio has nearly 200 colleges and universities. To make it less overwhelming for you, we've narrowed the list to the state's best residential institutions, Ohio's "Sturdy 30" colleges and universities. You'll learn how to clarify everything you and your student want in a college, including:• Cost• Academic majors• Study abroad opportunities• Cocurricular activitiesWe'll walk you through the all-important "family college meeting," and then you can match what you and your child want with our detailed descriptions of Ohio's best colleges. Once you know the colleges you want to visit, we'll help you prepare for your family's campus visits: who to see, what to do, and - most importantly - what to ask.You'll find this Trail Map to be an important tool in picking a good-fit college. As a result, your child will be more motivated, happier, and likely to graduate. The trail starts here!

Purposely Unchained takes the reader on an enthralling roller coaster journey with the author as the Holy Spirit helps her little-faith grow into great-faith. It began with The Call by the Father to start a new life. From there, her life fell into the deepest of valleys of personal trials and demonic challenges. On the final approach back to safety, she was able to clearly see the mountain top of triumph.Designed for the millions of women who formerly grew up without knowledge of God, and yet now fill the pews of churches around the world, Purposely Unchained humorously and yet biblically addresses the age-old issue of persecution that derails the faith of many Christians.Purposely Unchained shares a guaranteed battle plan that will strengthen the woman of God in her walk of Faith, while also demonstrating how to gain victory over ungodly strongholds. This book shares a life-assisting plan of action in which the perpetual promise and power of God's word is demonstrated several failsafe steps. It brings the biblical promise of victory off of the pages of the Bible and into the lives of today's woman of God to let her know that yes, she can be free.