Non-fiction books by me and Thom Nickels

Hello there!

These books can be read for free. One; unfortunately, doesn't have an e-book that you can download for free.

Welcome to my work - along with a plug for Thom Nickels.

Thom has just published:

 

 

Here's the link.

I wrote the preface and the prologue for this book.I am very proud to not only know him but have worked with him though a quite painful process of getting to the bottom of this.

The two if us have had the pleasure of working together almost as long as the Johnny S. Bobbitt Jr story has been made famous by the press. I got involved because I also spent time as a homeless person and also worked at a homeless men's shelter in Lake Charles, LA.

Anyway, here's Thom Nickels bio:

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hom Nickels is the author of 13 books, including Philadelphia Architecture, Out in History, Two Novellas and Literary Philadelphia: A History of Prose & Poetry in the City of Brotherly Love. His poetry has been published in Van Gogh's Ear, an anthology of new voices in prose and poetry published in Paris. He was awarded the Philadelphia AIA Lewis Mumford Award for Architectural Journalism in 2005. He was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 1990 for his book, Two Novellas: Walking Water & After All This.  He is a columnist for PJ Media in Los Angeles, and a weekly columnist for the Philadelphia Free Press and Philadelphia’s The Irish Edition. In May 2017 he was the featured speaker at Walt Whitman's 198th birthday celebration in the poet's old home on Mickle Street in Camden.

As for me, my first and rather embarrassing book dealt with my experiences in Vietnam. It's truly amazing one's writing can improve over just a period of 9 months. Never-the-less, I didn't publish it and it is available up on Amazon and it is called:

Once In Nam, Always In Nam

And yes, the handsome guy on the far right running is me. The problem is with the book title: "Once in Nam, always in Nam. From that, one would assume that the book is about my PTSD. Nothing can be farther from the truth.  Nor is the book a serious, sobering reminder of what hell was like in Vietnam. In fact, it is about the following:

Richard T. Edwards rebuilt an AH-1G Cobra almost by himself, got left on Firebase T Bone with Mortar rounds blowing off around him. He found parts where there were none, met the 5th Dimension in Osaka, Japan, got flown up to the DMZ and took a picture of a Red Flag there along with the remains of Hillbilly crazy chopper pilots who played capture the flag and lost. Did we also mention that he rode shotgun on a trash truck filled with C-4 donated by the grunts?
Does this sound like you’re average Vietnam storybook? It’s not.

I'm going to write a new book about who we were and what we really did.

A bit cleaner book, one without as many spelling and grammar mistakes is:

FREELANCE WRITING: Down in the foxhole with pencil, notepad and camera

  

This is a combination of how to improve writing skills and the hundreds of bylines and images that I was able to get published while in the Army between 1975 and 1979..as a helicopter mechanic. So, far, because there is no e-book, the book has zero sales. Which is rather humorous.

The next, which I wrote and also published is called:

Moorestown:  Where rich men's dreams came true and poor men's sons went to Vietnam to die.

This book as been doing rather well despite its title.

Moorestown was my town back in the 50s and 60s. My father ran the Criterion Movie Theater in town and was responsible for the Moorestown Memorial Field. This book is a panoramic view of the town as I knew it.

The last, which I'm still working on is:

This is Johnny and millions of other homeless Veterans.

What is interesting about this book is the fact that it goes from where Thom Nickels book stops and begins to question if the incident ever happened and then shows, images of the location as well as the logic that show how the entire thing could have been planned out many years prior.

That's all I have for right now.