The following is excerpted from Dale A. Dye’s most recent novel, Korean Odyssey—now available in hardcover and ebook. Foreword THEY CALL KOREA the forgotten war. It is, I suppose, except for a handful of military historians and a dwindling number of veteran survivors. It was not an event that carried the…

Standing on the Dock of the Bay By Doug Bradley I make this trip every December 10th, driving a short distance from my home on the west side of Madison, Wisconsin, to the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Monona Terrace on the shores of Lake Monona. …

by Doug Bradley On November 11, 1971, I nestled in my “Freedom Bird” headed to San Francisco and “the World” as we called the USA, the country that had sent me to the war in Vietnam 365 days earlier. For the first time in nearly two years, nobody was giving…

by Doug Bradley My GI journal of April 30, 1971 has this entry: Operation “Caroline Hill,” the name reminiscent of a sorority girl I once dated in college, was launched today by the 196th Light Infantry Brigade west and south of Da Nang. No doubt we’ll be running stories about…

By Doug Bradley — My World War II father and I are celebrating military anniversaries this Veterans Day. If he hadn’t passed away in 2009 at the age of 89, my dad Jack Bradley would be commemorating the 75th anniversary of his return from Japan in 1945 where he’d served as part of the…

By John M. Del Vecchio It is me. It is not me. The story structure of DEMISE is three concentric circles, with the inner-most circle being the last thoughts, or suicide contemplations, of John Panuzio. There is a total of four contemplations before the final convergence. If some of Johnny’s last thoughts from the late 1990s —…

By: John M. Del Vecchio To be released by Warriors Publishing Group — 8 September 2020 The following segments are from scenes in which Johnny Panuzio or Mitch Williams deal with the publication of Aaron William’s (Mitch’s son) thesis on race. Aaron’s full thesis will be available online in September…

by John M. Del Vecchio “What if? What if I fix your foundation?” A story of the 1990s to be released by Warriors Publishing Group September 2020. Rocco, Il Padrone in the old sense, Papa, Grandpa: For decades he has protected the family, has focused on keeping the family’s foundation…

By Doug Bradley A 1960s Georgetown University student, grappling with his Vietnam decision, befriends the daughter of the then president of the Philippines as they consider the murderer at their door; two Iraq female combatants play a mystifying contest of “which part is true?” regarding their harrowing tours of duty…