Monthly Archives: November 2018

1. Military Writers Society of America 2018, silver medalist for memoirs: 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…..

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Nov. 10, 2018: “Heroes to the End” (www.heroestotheend.com) won a silver medal for best memoir at the annual Military Writers Society of America convention in Charleston, S.C. The book is based on more than 80 articles I wrote as an Army Stars and Stripes correspondent in 1972 in Vietnam. I am donating all book sales proceeds and speaking fees to United Veterans Beacon House (www.uvbh.org), a Long Island nonprofit that runs homeless shelters for veterans.

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