The Price of the Sky: The Rescue of BASHER 52 (Book) - 7/7/2026 1:26:37 PM
Your writing has a very distinct atmosphere. It made me wonder if there's a particular book, movie, game, or even a piece of music that influenced this story while you were writing it.
The Price of the Sky: The Rescue of BASHER 52 (Book) - 7/7/2026 12:26:11 PM
Hi
What genre do you enjoy writing the most?🥰btw I analyzed your work, and I think it has a very unique and engaging storytelling style. The way you present your ideas and emotions really stands out.
Turning Rifles Into Silver: The Rif War (Book) - 6/11/2020 7:56:17 AM
I'm not sure what "Rif" means but that opening chapter sure is gut wrenching. Creating what will probably become a hardened man of some accomplishment, still haunted by what happened to him when he was only 15.
From what I've read and heard from folks. It was Easterners, immigrants from Europe, that considered land along the Rio Grande as their right, and massacred Mexican families that lived there in order to take the land. The King Ranch was a result of a enterprising lawyer from New York who bought up a lot of South Texas and then sent his henchmen to kill the Mexican squatters on the land. A fine heritage. That's why I like write stories true to history if I can.
Recently I watched a TV series, The Son, about a young man whose family was killed by Comanches then took him in. Played well by Pierce Bronson. He became a rich man for all the wrong reasons. True to history.
Ron
Leadership (Article) - 7/4/2024 12:38:16 PM
I disagree with your writing that your leader writers come from widely different backgrounds. They were all in the, rather rigid command structure of the military where leadership of those lower in the ranks can only be shown in a time of crisis. The personal story of Mike Gutmiller shows that sometimes leadership means resigning, like I did, retiring 6 months before I was fired.
At this time in the United States with the election coming, I hope many get to read the wide-ranging attributes of leadership that they all shared. Throughout my life I've known many great leaders and some, unfortunately, bad leaders in high places.
I was born the dominant twin and on a rocket ride to great leadership possibilities when I was paralyzed in surgery and my draft board discounted me as useless as well as many other people along the way with no leadership abilities. I was the first one to risk going to college in my extended family and always excelled under some very trying circumstances. I'm so proud of so many that I mentored as my students and associates.
Thank you so much for providing this article where many can read it.
Ron
U-Boat Hunters (Article) - 10/30/2019 9:09:08 AM
I have to assume that DE meant, destroyer escort, because I believe these ships were the most detrimental in protecting larger ships like the Block Island and freighters in the Atlantic from submarines with both their depth charges and firepower. Apparently they were built so that they could also ram submarines without damage to their bows. A good old-fashioned form of water warfare.
You don't hear much about airpower in the Atlantic and the carriers there. Thanks for bringing this to us. But what was written, I take it that the Block Island was made at a shipyard that was building a freighter when the war broke out and the freighter was quickly converted to a mini carrier to get to war quickly. A smart move considering what the ship did during its career.
Ron
When Nazis Invaded the Western Hemisphere (Article) - 10/17/2019 10:42:15 AM
Congratulations on your awards… Well-deserved. And thank you very much for bringing to life again, unknown or long forgotten stories of World War II. I found this story about how the Germans, like the Vikings before Columbus, had established troops and a weather station on Greenland and the Western Hemisphere in 1943, undetected, until the Danes, on patrol, found them, tragically.
And the heroic efforts of the two US Coast Guard cutters that braved killer ice flows to get to the site and help neutralize it. Good stuff. Unfortunately, there were many typos that hampered reading a bit. Cleaning those up would be nice. I constantly find them creeping into my work as well.
Ron
The Greatest Loss - U.S.A.T. Dorchester & the Four Chaplains (Article) - 3/20/2018 7:14:12 AM
A living testimony to the hell of war. You gave no citations where you found the first-person accounts. But they are critical to telling the story of what happened. Hypothermia is probably one of the most fearful things there is, but in a situation like this, men risked their lives in that frozen sea just to save others. Very heroic, but also very deadly to even the heroes.
You need to clearly state that it was 1943 in that first sentence. A little clarification might be in order because Greenland was not the battleground. It was England at that time. What were the men doing in Greenland? Where is St. John's relative to Narsarssuak? A map accompanying the story might help clarify where things happened.
There's quite a bit of terminology that might be confusing to the novice reader unfamiliar with naval lingo. I believe you mentioned a "wolf pack", without describing it as a group of German U-boats.
There are some typos and some contradictory statements in the same paragraph about the condition of the sea. And, I seem to have found several paragraphs that were repeated, but I could be wrong. I would have to read it over again to see what the Coast Guard's role really was. I assume when you wrote "cutter," you were describing a Coast Guard vessel as opposed to a Navy destroyer that was able to go after submarines. Without rereading, it gets a bit confusing.
If there was truly a wolf pack in the area, I can't understand why more ships weren't torpedoed. You never stated how many survived of the people on the Dorchester when she went down. Also at one point, you said she went down in 15 minutes and then another, 25 minutes.
In short, I think he should have someone with naval knowledge give it a thorough editing before publishing. History like this needs to be preserved, and perhaps, reenacted in the form of a very well done film, like the recent, Dunkirk.
Ron
