The Vfw

Author : Richard K. Kolb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974364346
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brutal Battles of Vietnam written by Richard K. Kolb and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brutal Battles of Vietnam: America's Deadliest Days, 1965-1972 is VFW's contribution to the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. This 480-page book covering some 100 military actions is an outgrowth of VFW's award-winning magazine series called Vietnam's Deadliest Battles. Running over seven years, its excellence was recognized with 13 national magazine awards. Genuinely a one-of-a-kind work, it provides the most comprehensive battle history of the war yet published in a single volume. Brimming with compelling stories, the book focuses exclusively on the perspective of the fighting man. Virtually all of the deadliest engagements are covered concisely. The high drama of the battlefield is felt through fast-paced personal accounts, some 700 pictures, battle maps and war statistics.

Author : Herbert Molloy Mason
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book VFW written by Herbert Molloy Mason and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the genesis of the VFW, and its steday growth. It is the story of dedication to the welfare of those who served overseas and a chronicle of civic presence thoughout the nation.

Author : Sam Farran
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 030692272X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tightening Dark written by Sam Farran and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting memoir follows a Lebanese-Muslim-American and thirty-year US Marine veteran who suffered a six-month ordeal at the hands of a brutal regime in Yemen—and remained loyal to his country through it all. As air strikes carpeted Yemen's capital, Sam Farran was one of only a few Americans in the war-ravaged country. He was there to conduct security assessments for a variety of international firms. Days after his arrival, he was brutally seized and taken hostage by Houthi rebels. Sam would spend the next six months suffering a horrific ordeal that would test his endurance, his loyalty and his very soul. Every day his captors asked him—as a fellow Muslim—to betray America and his Marine heritage in exchange for his freedom. Would he give in to the Houthis and return to his Middle Eastern roots? In the end--and despite daily threats to his life—Sam found the strength to resist, and came out of his ordeal with an increased sense of being, foremost, a US Marine. The Tightening Dark is an intimate, riveting and inspiring memoir of heroic strength, courage, survival and commitment to country. And a reminder that the best parts of the American dream are the dreamers—those who pledge to being American, regardless of where they are born.

Author : Bill Bottoms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The VFW written by Bill Bottoms and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicle of America's oldest major veteran's organization of the VFW.

Author : Elizabeth McCormick
Publisher : Next Century Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781629030081
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The P.I.L.O.T. Method written by Elizabeth McCormick and published by Next Century Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The P.I.L.O.T. method brings the skills of a pilot to your life.--Back cover.

Author : Margot Theis Raven
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN 13 : 1627531408
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's White Table written by Margot Theis Raven and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The White Table is set in many mess halls as a symbol for and remembrance to service members fallen, missing, or held captive in the line of duty. Solitary and solemn, it is the table where no one will ever sit. As a special gift to her Uncle John, Katie and her sisters are asked to help set the white table for dinner. As their mother explains the significance of each item placed on the table Katie comes to understand and appreciate the depth of sacrifice that her uncle, and each member of the Armed Forces and their families, may be called to give. It was just a little white table... but it felt as big as America when we helped Mama put each item on it and she told us why it was so important. "We use a Small Table, girls," she explained first, "to show one soldier's lonely battle against many. We cover it with a White Cloth to honor a soldier's pure heart when he answers his country's call to duty." "We place a Lemon Slice and Grains of Salt on a plate to show a captive soldier's bitter fate and the tears of families waiting for loved ones to return," she continued."We push an Empty Chair to the table for the missing soldiers who are not here..." Margot Theis Raven has been a professional writer working in the fields of radio, television, magazines, newspapers, and children's books for 30 years. Margot's first children's book, Angels in the Dust, won five national awards, including an IRATeacher's Choice Award. Her first book with Sleeping Bear Press, Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot, was the runner-up for the 2004 Texas Bluebonnet Award. She lives with her family in Charleston, South Carolina. Mike Benny's illustrations have appeared in Time, GQ, New Yorker and Sports Illustrated Magazines. He has also been awarded two Gold Medals from the Society of Illustrators. This is Mike's first children's book. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Mary Ann and daughter Adele.

Author : Donald W. Whisenhunt
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739148311
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Veterans of Future Wars written by Donald W. Whisenhunt and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of The Veterans of Future Wars (VFW), a student movement that attracted widespread support in a short few months in 1936. Despite its short life, it was a successful movement that attracted wide support and caused serious discussion about the role of the federal government in providing bonuses to veterans. It focused American attention on the bonus issue, which had been a political issue for many years.

Author : Jonathan Wright
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252052706
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punks in Peoria written by Jonathan Wright and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Punk rock culture in a preeminently average town Synonymous with American mediocrity, Peoria was fertile ground for the boredom- and anger-fueled fury of punk rock. Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett explore the do-it-yourself scene built by Peoria punks, performers, and scenesters in the 1980s and 1990s. From fanzines to indie record shops to renting the VFW hall for an all-ages show, Peoria's punk culture reflected the movement elsewhere, but the city's conservatism and industrial decline offered a richer-than-usual target environment for rebellion. Eyewitness accounts take readers into hangouts and long-lost venues, while interviews with the people who were there trace the ever-changing scene and varied fortunes of local legends like Caustic Defiance, Dollface, and Planes Mistaken for Stars. What emerges is a sympathetic portrait of a youth culture in search of entertainment but just as hungry for community—the shared sense of otherness that, even for one night only, could unite outsiders and discontents under the banner of music. A raucous look at a small-city underground, Punks in Peoria takes readers off the beaten track to reveal the punk rock life as lived in Anytown, U.S.A.

Author : Victoria Findlay Wolfe
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1617455091
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Quilt Magic written by Victoria Findlay Wolfe and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grow your cache of quilter's tricks with 5 awe-inspiring patchwork techniques that are easier than they appear. Learn a new piecing trick in just 15 minutes or less, and watch your skills soar to a whole new level. Say "presto!" with partial seams for both quilts and blocks, Y-seams, mini improv piecing, and free-form curves. Victoria Findlay Wolfe shares 17 projects, including the eye-fooling Herringbone and LeMoyne Star quilt patterns, plus full-size templates and 6 quilt coloring pages to help you work your own quilt magic.

Author : Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Annual Convention
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (summary of Minutes). written by Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Annual Convention and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: