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Author Bruce E. Carlson
Red Bird Down!
Bruce Carlson was born and raised in Brockton
Massachusetts. He stayed there until he volunteered for Helicopter Flight
Training in 1968. Following his training, he was sent to Vietnam and served as
an Aero Scout with "C" Troop Seventh of the Seventeenth Cav. While flying in
Vietnam, he was shot down several time and received numerous awards for
gallantry. Among these Awards are three Distinguished Flying Cross's and a
Bronze Star.
When he returned from Vietnam he married the former Francisca
Acosta of Crystal City Texas. While in Korea in the spring of 1973 he suffered a
serious aircraft accident that put him in the hospital for a year. Medically
retired from the Army, he went to Seminary at Bangor Theological Seminary in
Bangor Maine where he received a Master of Divinity Degree.
An ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, he has
served parishes in both Maine and Nebraska. Currently, he resides in Lexington
Nebraska with his wife Francisca Acosta-Carlson who is a Family Practice Doctor,
his son, one cat, three dogs, and numerous fish. Occasionally filling in at
local pulpits, he divides his time between being a benignly baffled and
bewildered house-husband and an aspiring novelist.
Red Bird Down" is his first novel and is loosely based upon
his Vietnam experience.
To find out more about his book or buy it - click on this
link
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0970156006/103-5371690-6907868
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