My best friend of almost sixty years, Jim Booth, passed away this year. His passing was sudden and unexpected. James Melvin Booth used to call me on the phone every morning, come rain or shine. He would call when he was on vacation and he would call when I was on vacation. He would […]
Major Michael O’Donnell Major Michael O’Donnell was a helicopter pilot killed in action near Dak To, Vietnam in March of 1970. Although I did not know Major O’Donnell we were in Vietnam at the same time, and in some of the same places. This is a poem he penned three months before his […]
Book Review Reviewed by Paul Johnson for Readers’ Favorite In the later stages of the American involvement in Vietnam, things have started to change. An Air Force senior NCO (non-commissioned officer) runs a very large black market operation providing goods and supplies to all branches as well as the South Vietnamese Army. Several young airmen, […]
£ Oh sweet bird of youth, when did you slip away? When we were young, it was not clear that you might leave one day. € We had such times on your great wings those days indeed did fly. And now you’re gone we can’t recall just when you passed us by. […]
MWSA Review Reviewed by: Michael D. Mullins (2015) Summary The Kansas NCO, by Joe Campolo, Jr., is a trip to a darker place in Vietnam than the jungle. It is a journey into a combatant’s mind and spirit. It could easily be the protagonist’s Heart of Darkness with a surprise ending. The characters paint a […]
Wars are lost because the ability to wage them, the resources needed to win them, and the will to fight them abates, is lost, or is destroyed. It is my opinion that the South Vietnamese espoused a personal philosophy of every family for itself and instead of prosecuting their war they used both our […]
Hi all. Thanks again for all the support and kind words regarding The Kansas NCO. I am working on that sequel and hope it will be just as well received as The Kansas NCO. I’m also in the process of writing some short stories, mostly about my fishing adventures, or miss-adventures I should say. The […]
AuthorsZoneAwardsMR-2014 I’m proud to say The Kansas NCO has taken 3rd place in the historical fiction category from The Author Zone’s annual writer’s contest.