Monthly Archives: August 2018

I feel like I know Jack Heslin, even though we’ve only been e-mail buddies over the past 15 years. He has run a website, The Battle of Kontum, on the North Vietnamese 1972 “Easter Offensive,” and I finally got my Vietnam memoir “Heroes to the End” written in 2015. It’s based on my Stars and Stripes stories, and many of those were datelined from Pleiku and Kontum in the Central Highlands. Now Heslin finally has published “Thunder” (Outskirts Press), on…..

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I was pleased to have been interviewed on Aug. 8, 2018 on Linda Frank’s half-hour cable show on LTV in East Hampton called “The Writer’s Dream” (//www.facebook.com/The-Writers-Dream-144688198966801/). I discussed how I came to write and self-publish my Vietnam memoir “Heroes to the End” (www.heroestotheend.com). Linda and I are members of the Long Island Authors Group. Because Linda is an experienced interviewer and an author herself, she posed two questions that I rarely had faced in about 110 previous speaking engagements…..

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