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|  | | Recall! Return of the IRR
This book relates the author's experiences when he was recalled to active military duty in support of Operation Desert Storm.
There hadn't been a full-scale recall of the Individual Ready Reserves since the Korean War in January of 1991. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, many people believed it would take World War III to trigger a recall of the IRR. Many people were wrong.
They came from cities and farms and towns in every corner of the country. With only a few days' notice, they quit their jobs, dropped out of college, kissed their girlfriends or wives, and got on planes to Atlanta, Georgia with nothing but the clothes on their backs. They had long hair, beards, and b | |  | | SAT & BAF! Memories of a Tower Rat
Second Place Winner of the 2011 Reader Views Literary Award (History/Science). A memoir of the author's time as security for Pershing II nuclear missiles in cold war Germany.
p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal">font size="3" face="Calibri">The year is 1986. The Cold War is five years from its end bringing a close to a nearly fifty year standoff between the st1:country-region w:st="on">United States/st1:country-region> and the st1:country-region w:st="on">st1:place w:st="on">USSR/st1:place>/st1:country-region>. The Soviet Union is outraged over a large number of Pershing missiles being kept in st1:country-region w:st="on">st1:place w:st="on">West Germany/st1:place>/st1:country-region>. President Ronald Reagan is proposing the Strategic Defen |
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Boy in a Box
by Paul Lonardo
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 This book is an autobiographical account of the lessons I learned about life and how I was able to apply them to inspire, motivate and empower others in my own work as a firefighter, as well in my daily life as a husband, a father and a man. When I w |
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DO YOU SEE...WHAT I SEE?
by Asa Seeley
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 Asa D Seeley, a young Afro American man, shares his struggle to leave his past behind as he reaches for his future. In his one-of-a-kind style, he searches for answers...from the visible & invisible. A Memoir in Poetical/Prose form.
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