How I Chose My Title

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I suppose for some authors and writers, a title comes easy. Not so in my case. I planned to title my book about the USS Franklin, “Abandon? Hell, We’re Still Afloat!” That would make a great title, especially from a marketing perspective. The title would start with the letter “A” and how could someone browsing…

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Memory Lane

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Posting this on Sunday, May 29th, 2022 as I’m watching the 106th running of the Indianapolis 500 and it’s bringing back memories. My father spent more than three decades working for Coca-Cola USA first as a “Bottler Sales Representative,” then promoted into supervisory positions and transferred about every two years. By the time I was…

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Welcome

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As long as I can remember, I have loved history, especially American history. I grew up on TV and movie Westerns and enjoyed stories about the colonists overthrowing the British in the American Revolution and the Texicans and Tejanos fighting Santa Anna. I was in the second through fourth grades when we lived in San…

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