Monthly Archives: October 2018

I will be one of the participating authors from the Long Island Authors Group Saturday, Nov. 3 from 2-5 p.m. at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church’s annual Fall Author Fair at 270 South Broadway in Hicksville. I will be autographing my Vietnam memoir “Heroes to the End” (www.heroestotheend.com) for $20 and donating all proceeds to United Veterans Beacon House (www.uvbh.com). My memoir nominated as a possible winner of the best memoir award for 2018 by the Military Writers Society of America.

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Military Writers Society of America review: In his book Heroes to the End, author Jim Smith provides us an excellent perspective of the waning days of U.S involvement in the Vietnam War. As a young man employed as a Newsday reporter, the author received a very low draft number ensuring he’d be picked up in the next draft, he took the initiative and enlisted for three years. This kept him from going straight into the infantry and on to Vietnam……

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Oct. 6 — I was told by Linda Marie Frank, host of a cable TV show called “The Writer’s Dream,” that two half-hour interviews I recently gave will be shown on Cablevision Ch. 20 on Thursdays at 3 p.m. In the first one, I was interviewed solo about my Vietnam memoir “Heroes to the End” and my work with United Veterans Beacon House, where I am the Board vice president. Beacon House, a Bay Shore nonprofit that runs homeless shelters,…..

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