Pinky is the first of four volumes of A MEMOIR OF WORLD WAR II. It is about a boy from an Oklahoma farm who wanted more than anything else to join the Navy and fight the Japs. He has a number of setbacks but in this volume he makes it to an island in the Pacific, New Caledonia, Admiral Halsey's COMSOPAC headquarters.
This is the way it was in the early 1940's: The Japs had hit us hard at Pearl Harbor, and we were going to teach her a lesson. No able-bodied man could tolerate the though of staying at home during this war.
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It was 1943 and Pinky was scared to death the war would end before he could get to it.
Sarah Thompson has ten days on Maui to find her lifetime after lifetime soulmate. She is certain he is waiting for her there on one of the last remaining land masses of Mu still above water.
Determined to confront the hazy memories of his troubled youth, Oliver Matthews, a retired detective and confirmed bachelor, returns to the picturesque town of Henley-on-Thames for the first time in years.
Soldier's Gap is a non-traditional mystery with literary elements. The high school principal is brutally murdered, but Deputy Sheriff Dave Jenkins's search for meaning and love is a much more significant theme.
"Murder isn't usually this fun