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Buck Jones was a high school student and athlete consumed with the patriotic desire to join the military to help defeat the enemy in World War II. Upon graduation in 1942 from MineolaHigh School on Long Island he enlisted in the marines. When his patrol plane was shot down over the Pacific, the family...

LOVE IN AN ALTERED STATE, encompasses many aspects of the life and times of a seemingly ordinary man and his contribution to posterity. The story begins with the fact that "Bill" has suffered a debilitating cerebral stroke. The time line begins approximately 60 years after the end of World...

It was my hope in writing this that it be informative, educational, entertaining, and hopefully inspirational. With family history starting prior to my arrival on the scene, it spans nearly 100 years. It describes different times and faraway places. To the older generation it may bring back the past...

A First Class Private is the authors reflections and thankfulness on looking back at his life. His patriotic memories of serving in WWII are his overview of how GOD blessed his life.

Tales of the Lost Flamingo takes its readers on a journey through life's circus utilizing a cast of unforgettable characters magically woven into twelve individual but interwined stories that peek through the holes in the Big Top like a dozen wide-eyed urchins. Mr. Griffin's debut novella,...

War and memories of war; both are products of soldiers. The memories I wish to share with you are things that happened to someone at some space in time and impacted on the memories of many. Soldiers memories have always been the remembrance of wars. I think for that reason, soldiers tend to have selective...

Camp Lejeune Command describes Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Dunns life as an Artillery Battalion Commander at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina during the early 1990s. The book starts the summer before the family moves to Jacksonville, NC while still stationed at Fort Monmouth, NJ. Dunn describes his daily...

Most Western non-Muslim women couldnt envision surrendering their freedom and being forced to comply with Saudi womens entrapped customs which have existed for the past 1,400 years. Did you know that Saudi Arabias religious police, known as the Mutawa, can take any woman to jail for not covering her...

The thirty-two century-old hotels featured in this book have defied the passage of time for a variety of reasons, many explicable, some beyond explanation, all miraculous. For eighteen of them, it was the fortuitous creation of the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission in 1965. The landmarks...

Whenever I mention my Frankie Laine association to someone for the first time, two questions always come up: Why are you interested in Frankie Laine and his music? and How did you meet Frankie? I suppose the first question relates to my age. I was born a decade after Frankie had recorded Thats...

The End of Suffering is about the shared human experience and our universal desire to be free of the burden of suffering. It is about healing. Even though the causes of our pain are different, the nature of what we share is identical. All of us at one time hurt and we all carry events which sometimes...

John McGrath is an executive chef, author and an active film critic who has reported for radio, television and print media for more than 16 years. Author of Watch This Movie, a collection of reviews of his top 1000 films, John is also a veteran of seven Cannes Film Festivals. His last book...

A collection of short stories set in Hollywood and New York City.

The patchwork construction of this book is like a time worn quilt; a faded tapestry, reminding you of ages past. Memories run together, so emphatic they obscure a diamonds refl ection, clouding what is really true. Having worn edges and faded colored threads, the truth of these tales seems to disappear...