Most of the characters in my books are based upon real people, and the character known as Arnold Redmond, (Red) is no exception. Red’s inspiration was Jim Northrup, a Native American of the Ojibwa tribe. Jim was also a United States Marine Corps Vietnam War veteran, a fellow author, speaker and poet. Sadly, Jim […]
Category: War and Military Stories
Introduction Today’s article is written by Stephen Ordway. Stephen is a fellow Vietnam War Veteran and a former Green Beret. This is the second article Stephan has provided for our blog. In this article Steve reflects on a life of struggles and […]
Film producer Spike Lee has jumped into the Vietnam War genre with his film Da Five Bloods, now featured on Netflix. I was asked to share my thoughts on the work, so keeping in mind I am far from unbiased or a professional film […]
Each Memorial Day brings memories of my friend Bill Follon. Bill and I were stationed together at Phu Cat airbase during the Vietnam War. Bill was assigned to the Red Horse squadron, an Air Force unit comparable to the Navy Seabees. I worked with […]
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. ~Voltaire A Sad Day in History April 30, 2020 marks the 45th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon. […]
It seems I had been drawn into another lost cause. ~Joe Noah, future star of the Silver Screen? As many know, most of the characters in my books are based on real people. However, one character in my book, Noah, […]
If you expected everything to make sense, you were soon disappointed. ~Joe Scrounging for Parts in a Two Hundred Billion Dollar War For almost one month during my fun filled, all-expense paid visit to Vietnam in 1970, I was a member of an aircrew. President Richard Nixon’s program of […]
Introduction My friend Le Ly Hayslip, a Vietnamese citizen who escaped Vietnam in 1970, the same year as my military service in that war torn nation. I did not know Le Ly at that time and would not come to know of her until I read her amazing book When Heaven & […]
Friction in Hong Kong November, 2019 With much interest, I have been following the riots and protests currently ravaging Hong Kong. Ever since the transition from British oversite to Communist Chinese control in 1997, one could sense the on- going tension between Hong Kong, long a bastion of capitalism and the […]
Introduction In June of this year, along with my friend George Dooley, I attended an air show in Port Angeles, Washington. My wife Ann and I had spent two weeks in the Pacific Northwest, taking in many fantastic sites while visiting George and his wife, Diane. (Reference earlier blog article Amtrak Empire Builder, […]