Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that everyone is at most six steps away from, or connected to, any other person on Earth. While the Vietnam War was raging, silver bracelets were created to raise awareness of, and show support for, American servicemen who were prisoners of war (POW) or missing in action (MIA). After the war, black bracelets were produced to pay homage to any of our armed forces killed in action (KIA). The orange bracelet is more recent and symbolizes all those, living and deceased, who have suffered from diseases, combat wounds, and post traumatic stress resulting from their Vietnam service. These bracelets honor the memory and sacrifice of our troops one of the central goals of this book. You will be riveted by the indescribable stories told by veterans, about veterans, and for veterans, and by the families of the lost or still missing MIAs. More than 3,400,000 men and women served in Southeast Asia. Although close to 60 percent of all Vietnam veterans who served in-country are no longer alive, the families of all these veterans will continue to be affected by the Vietnam War for generations. This book illustrates the misery and despair experienced by both soldiers and victims of this visceral war, but also the exhilaration of combat, and the camaraderie felt, during their respective tours, to present day.

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East Texas author, Robert Brock, celebrates the nationwide release of his new novel based on a true story about hard work, brotherhood, knee-slapping humor and the supernatural bond that causes men to sacrifice their lives for each other and their families both on the battlefield and on the home front. When Connor Flannigan was declared MIA in the warzone, there was never a doubt that his friend and blood-brother, Milo O'Brien, would come to the rescue. Risking life and limb, Milo goes to Iraq to rescue his friend. But when Milo brings Connor home, it quickly becomes apparent that things will never be the same. He must decide whether to follow his own dreams or sacrifice his life to care for his brother.

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Twenty-two-year-old Romanian Stefan Babamikyam fulfills his lifelong dream of going to America to become a G.I.Joe like John Wayne from movies his father bought him. He has little command of the English and no knowledge of slang. After he gets himelf into some comical situations, a recruiter takes him in and gets him ready for Boot Camp, making him study English, work out in a gym and jog. Read the love letters between Stefan and his love back in Romania as they both practice English. Stefan holds a secret his recruiter tries to get out of him. The secret draws the eyes of Army Counterintelligence. After his leave time Stefan gets his orders and is told he will be picked up by two agents. He wondered why he was the only one who did not get orders after graduation from Boot Camp. Stefan is a genius,but lacks common sense.A very funny story. One of the people who critiqued the book said he sounds like a foreign Forrest Gump.

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Healing the Warrior Heart: A Glimpse into the Hearts of Combat Veterans and their Supporting Loved Ones features poems and short stories by Marine combat veteran, Andrew R. Jones, and over a dozen other veterans and veteran families. The words spark inspiration into the hearts of those needing to heal and provide validation to those who think they are alone.

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For Rich Bishop, reporting to basic training for the US Navy was reminiscent of Dorothy leaving Kansas and ending up in Oz. The transition from civilian to navy life overwhelming. In Nuts to Butts: Anecdotes from a Career in the US Navy, he narrates excerpts of his twenty-two-year career-from basic training to retirement. He takes you from Basic Training to his first sea duty, to his tour in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, many of the foreign ports he visited, and speaks to everyday life in the Navy.

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This is the story of what happens when a teen age boy joins the United States Air Force and quickly finds himself in charge of a multimillion dollar airplane. The friends, the plane and the adventures of four years traveling the world are described in these pages. From paradise to combat and back within hours each way.

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Holding Hands with Heroes chronicles a common man's service to his country--from Operation PIPESTONE CANYON in Vietnam as a young, enlisted Marine, to the halls of the Central Intelligence Agency where service and dedication to a cause became a way of life. This is the story of one man's journey through the throes of war and his selfless dedication while employed at the country's most prestigious, clandestine, intelligence-gathering organization.

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Mike Shocklee, an operations officer in the CIA is deployed as part of an element providing intelligence support for a U.S. led humanitarian relief effort. In the intense fighting that ensues, disaster strikes. He is seriously wounded and reassigned to CIA headquarters with a chip on his shoulder for not being rewarded. He strikes out at the agency by covertly planning to use Somali pirates to hijack a U.S. flagged oil tanker and hold it for ransom. As the body-count around him starts to rise, another agent puts the puzzle pieces together and has to decide if he can, or should, stop it.

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Call Sign Dracula provides an outstanding, valuable and worthy in-depth look into the life of a US Army Infantry soldier serving with the famed 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One) in Vietnam. It is a genuine, firsthand account of a one-year tour that shows how a soldier grew and matured from an awkward, bewildered, inexperienced, eighteen year-old country "bumpkin" from Kentucky, to a tough, battle hardened, fighting soldier.

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Colonel Simon Njonjo, a rebel soldier who is loyal to the ousted former president of Zimbabwe, has mounted a brutal attack on Harare Station, a CIA outpost. The bloody assault leaves many station personnel dead and three missing, including Mike Shocklee. No sign of them can be found in Zimbabwe; no ransom is requested, and it's suspected the men have been taken into Mozambique for political purposes. It also is suspected that they will be mistreated, and quite probably tortured or killed. But the CIA's hands are tied when the American president makes it clear that norescue teams are to search across the border in Mozambique; the unstable political situation there makes the CIA employees expendable.

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This project, recently published, by the German publisher, Kehrer Verlag, considers the varied landscapes of North Africa that the soldier of World War II was forced to endure. Thousands of miles from home, largely untraveled and ignorant of lands and peoples outside his home country, he was dropped onto the shores of what must have seemed to him a dangerous and alien environment his understanding of the land limited to stereotype, myth and the relevant army field manual.

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A narrative recounting my experiences in the Marines during the turbulence of the late Sixty's; rife with reference to the drugs, music, and politics that interfaced our "unpopular war." These poems, for the most part, depict the time I served with the 1st Marine Division in the I Corps Sector of South Vietnam; from its triple canopies in the Annamese Cordillera to the sun-bleached savannahs that stretched and spilled-out into the South China Sea. I was nineteen years old*.

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This story is about the development of the modern(enduring) nuclear weapons stockpile at Los Alamos during the height of the Cold War. For over 40 years, these weapons have been the tip of the sword of systems operated by military personnel serving at the air force's silo fields,bombers and cruise missile carriers, the navy's ballistic missile submarines, and the army's tactical forces. They were the backbone of President Reagan's facedown of the Soviet Union and provide today's deterrent.

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SHOT DOWN is about author Steve Snyder's father, Howard Snyder, the ten man crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth, and the unique experiences of each man after their plane was knocked out of the sky by German fighters over the French/Belgium border on February 8, 1944. Some men died. Some were captured and became prisoners of war. Some evaded the Germans for awhile but were betrayed, captured, and shot. Some men evaded capture and were missing in action for seven months. The stories are all different and are all remarkable.

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Join me on an existential journey into a dystopian reality where all roads through Atlantic City, Afghanistan, Baghdad, Kuwait, New Orleans, and New York City converge through time and space on hot fudge sundaes for breakfast.

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