Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Saturday, April 15, 2017
From the Last of the Renaissance Men: Rebecca and the Renegade is now available at: http...
From the Last of the Renaissance Men: Rebecca and the Renegade is now available at: http...: Rebecca and the Renegade is now available at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1521074062/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492286022&s...
Brief description:
Can a young woman who’s seen her family slain by renegade
Indians come to love one of them?
It’s 1781. While the Revolutionary War winds down east of
the Allegheny Mountains, in western Pennsylvania, a tribe of Delaware Indians
take to the warpath. A 19 year old girl, Rebecca Walker, witnesses the killing
of her parents and brother by a raiding party and is captured herself. After
unsuccessful escape attempts, she falls in love with a member of the tribe,
Mamalachgook. She convinces him to run away with her; but further adventure
awaits Rebecca.
Friday, April 14, 2017
Brief description:
Imagine being one of a 7-man team in the middle of a jungle
where any person you might encounter will try to kill you. This is enemy territory, inhabited by an
unknown number of enemy combatants. You
might encounter 1 or 2 of the Viet Cong or North Vietnamese Army or just as
easily 50 or more. In addition, there is
the danger of man-eating tigers and poisonous snakes!
Your mission is to find the enemy without them finding
you. You are to report their position so
that artillery batteries, bombers or helicopter gunships can destroy them
without risking the lives of infantrymen in a hazardous jungle assault. You must keep quiet lest you be
detected. The brush is so thick it’s
hard not snap twigs or crunch brush. You
find a trail; but you can’t walk on it because it may be booby-trapped with
land mines. What sort of men would willingly undertake such a mission?
Swift, Silent & Deadly tells the story of Recon Marine
heroes in Vietnam. Many of the men
covered in the book are no longer with us.
Some were casualties of war. Others just haven’t survived the years that
have passed since the end of the war.
There are still plenty around to tell their story, however, and some of
those are included in this book
Sunday, April 2, 2017
This afternoon I heard a noise on the patio. My wife had a plastic container where she stored sunflower seeds for the birds. Squirrels gnawed their way into it before to get at the seeds. This time the container was empty. There was, however a plastic cup inside Judi uses to scoop out the seeds. This afternoon a squirrel tried to run off with it.
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