Thirty years after I was medevaced home from an ambush in the Mekong Delta I wrote Muddy Jungle Rivers, "A river assault boat cox'n's memory journey of his war in Vietnam and return home." It was published in 2012.
In January 2010 my mother died and left behind a time capsule of family history locked in our old homestead chickenhouse in northern Minnesota. I spent three years reading, organizing, scanning, archiving, and researching primary documents that date back to 1822; thousands of pages of letters, picures, diaries, scrapbooks. In researchi more...