Soldier Works - The Story of War, Written by the Soldiers who Fought It
A site to help Veteran Authors market their work. Whether the author is
considering self publishing, or has self published their work, this
website is intended to help market books by Veterans on the subject of
War, War Poetry Collections, or War Histories. The Story of the Soldier
should not be forgotten, and needs to be told to as many as possible, and
this site intends to get the Words of Soldiers before the eyes of the
public.
www.soldierworks.com/
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Photo by Sarah Beal
"In The Shadow of The Blade" documentary film is
shooting for a Veteran's Day opening. Film is still being edited as of this
date. A 20 minute film clip will be presented at the VHCMA Reunion in
Atlanta, Georgia this June. Gary Rouch will be introducing
the film along with Arrowhead Film director and producer Patrick Fries.
www.intheshadowoftheblade.com
Coming events: Bill McDonald will be one of the keynote speakers at The
California Vietnam Veteran's Memorial on Sunday May 25th, 2003. The
program will be at 1200 hours in the State Capitol Park Sacramento,
California. The subject of the talk will be the reunion of "Baby Kathleen".
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Review Of A New Documentary Film
"Time in a Barrel"
Excerpt from the movie website :
www.timeinthebarrel.com/ the
following summary of the movie.
Why go back?
Questions always
outnumber answers in Vietnam.
So what drew these six
Marines here again? Memories of confusion and pain. Powerful days whose
impact lasted a lifetime. Friends who left their blood on Vietnam’s green
shores.
They will return to
Saigon, DaNang, Hue, Khe Sanh, the DMZ, even travel to Hanoi. These are not
simply stops on a trip. They are way stations of the heart.
This is Vietnam...a
return.
Looking back into their
past, a group of Marine brothers finds, like the old schoolyard, it is
smaller, its demons sometimes less threatening, always terribly real. Like
their time spent "in the barrel," this is a chance to get out of the enemy
sights, if they can ever finally know who and where the enemy is...in
Vietnam.
Two veterans hug on top
of an emerald ridgeline at the DMZ on their own personal battlefield. It has
changed.
A Marine reaches out to
touch the hand of a former North Vietnamese soldier. He is smiling.
A young man kneels on
Vietnam’s soft, green earth, the place of his father’s fiery helicopter
crash. Half a world away the boy feels close to a man he never knew.
What is the past? How
powerful is its draw? How difficult it is to be stranded in this old
experience...and how powerful to let go?
The answers are
surprising, unvarnished, terrible, reconciling.
What peace can still be
pulled from this war? How can these veterans shed light on the mystery that
is always Vietnam? Questions raised in the words of Vietnam’s combat
veterans.
Six Marines describe the
brutality, confusion, adrenaline and scars of combat in
"VIETNAM: Time In The Barrel,"
a new film about men after war.
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BOOK REVIEW:
PERMISSION TO KILL a novel by Brian Wizard
The absolutely most riveting novel about helicopters and war that
I have read in a very long time. I couldn't put the book down to go to sleep
- I had to finish it and find how it ended. Brain Wizard has several
other books out and two more in this series - this is the first and it will
hook you into reading the other two books that make up this saga. (The other
books: "Back in The World" and "Permission to Live")
Most of what Wizard writes about are from his actual experiences of war.
Having seen his "home war movies" where he does some rather daring stuff, I
am inclined to believe that most everything that he writes - even though it
is written as fiction - is based on his own life experiences or those of
people who were close to him.
Visit his own website for more details:
www.brianwizard.com
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