War
June 6, 2009
- My new novel Split Ends is within me complete with missions, high tensions, and soul searching. My characters have been in limbo and transformed several times into well kept "Frankensteins." Not that I have writer's block, but this particular piece of work has been through numerous pitfalls. The first pitfall is that I completed the final draft and saved it to one (eight track ...
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June 5, 2009
- Arctic Drift by Clive and Dirk Cussler (Book Review) Now in paperback Artic Drift by the Cusslers is the 20th Dirk Pitt novel in the series. It is published by Michael Joseph and its ISBN is 0718154703. This quick and exciting James Bond type of thriller is a well researched and beautifully written novel. There is the usual villain (Goyette) and good guys (Dirk ...
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June 5, 2009
- *Disclaimer: The paragraph you’re about to read sounds like an advertisement, but I swear it isn’t! The interview with WKMS’s Mark Welch will air today at around noon central. This link will bring you to a live stream, Live365 Internet Radio Player. It’s amazing. I tried listening to the radio stream via WKMS’s links provided on the website, but the buffering just wasn’t ...
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June 3, 2009
- Homefront is the first book to tear off the yellow ribbon and expose the raw and complex experience of waiting for a lover to survive a war. June 3, 2009 – NASHVILLE, TN – Homefront, featured on WNPR’s “Faith Middleton Show,” is Kristen Tsetsi’s critically-acclaimed semi-autobiographical debut novel set in the military town of Clarksville, TN. “Haunting and lyrical,” writes ...
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June 1, 2009
- Several days after the Iraqi banker training commenced, a fourth member of the American training team arrived. His name is Bob Willett, and he was delayed by a hurricane bearing down on his Florida home. His arrival breathed fresh life into the affair, for by then the other two men and I realized that the training course had been hijacked by political interests and somehow gone terribly ...
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May 28, 2009
- In the autumn of 2004, I was invited along with three other American subject-matter experts to travel to Jordan for a couple weeks to train Iraqi bankers at the Amman Marriott. We'd bombed Iraq 18 months earlier. The situation in Baghdad was grave. And so the sages at USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development, the State Department's aid arm) and their contractors decided it was ...
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May 27, 2009
- May 27 MEMORIAL DAY Veteran of the addiction wars, I have scars but few medals. I don’t need a purple heart, mine is black and blue. I don’t keep trophies either, no empty bottles or old syringes. Hostages, I have released them, too. I found often they held me from what my life could be. I wear my defects and wave my flag. I am slowly learning to live in peacetime. The big ...
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May 25, 2009
- May 25 TROJAN PERSON I feel confused by the difference between love and war. The intensity and rush are too much for my frazzled and betrayed emotions to sort out. I feel like a Trojan person. I have all these children holed up inside and they are waiting for peace and safety so they can come out and sleep. For a time I allowed them to leave for bathroom breaks, one at a time. ...
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May 25, 2009
- My father served in World War II. He was called to active duty again for the Korean War. During that war, he was wounded when a mine exploded. Shrapnel was embedded over the entire backside of his body. Much of it could not be removed. The experience changed him. He was truly wise from the experience he gained serving and fighting in the war. He often told us his war stories. Though he never ...
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May 23, 2009
- Memorial Day is to commemorate the soldiers who have died in wars. For most people it is a long weekend about things they will do – go to the supermarket, stock up on what they need to live, plan a short trip out of town, watch lots of movies, call friends over for a barbeque, rustle up some fancy meals, clean out cupboards, complete pending paperwork, go ...
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