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Category : Brass industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Our Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brass industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Our Year of War
Author: Daniel P. BolgerPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306903245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Two brothers -- Chuck and Tom Hagel -- who went to war in Vietnam, fought in the same unit, and saved each other's life. They disagreed about the war, but they fought it together. 1968. America was divided. Flag-draped caskets came home by the thousands. Riots ravaged our cities. Assassins shot our political leaders. Black fought white, young fought old, fathers fought sons. And it was the year that two brothers from Nebraska went to war. In Vietnam, Chuck and Tom Hagel served side by side in the same rifle platoon. Together they fought in the Mekong Delta, battled snipers in Saigon, chased the enemy through the jungle, and each saved the other's life under fire. But when their one-year tour was over, these two brothers came home side-by-side but no longer in step -- one supporting the war, the other hating it. Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his brother Tom epitomized the best, and withstood the worst, of the most tumultuous, shocking, and consequential year in the last half-century. Following the brothers' paths from the prairie heartland through a war on the far side of the world and back to a divided America, Our Year of War tells the story of two brothers at war -- a gritty, poignant, and resonant story of a family and a nation divided yet still united.
Our General Our Friend
Author: Eric DanielsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781725822832
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
"...a tremendous troop leader who inspired his soldiers through his personal example of excellence and stamina." - Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State, General Colin Powell (Ret.)Some people make a difference everywhere they go. Burn Loeffke is one of those people. You can be, too.Major General Burn Loeffke (Ret.) was the Chief of Staff of the XVIII Airborne Corps, and Commanding General of the U.S. Army South. He served as Director of the White House Fellows program under President Nixon's administration, and was the first American paratrooper to jump with a Chinese airborne unit. After retiring from the U.S. Army, Burn went to medical school so he could volunteer with missions groups in war-torn and impoverished countries around the world. And everywhere Burn went, he made friends.He served as a military attaché in Russia and China, and was the Chief of Staff of the XVIII Airborne Corps, and Commanding General of the U.S. Army South. Before retiring in 1992, he was the Chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board. He was an army swimming champion as a captain, competed in a military decathlon in Moscow as a colonel, and ran full-length marathons in China as a general.When you meet Burn, you can't help but admire him. Not for all his accomplishments, but for who he is as a person. Abraham Lincoln once said, "Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." Burn Loeffke is the real thing. You don't have to go to West Point to be like Burn. Through his story, this book teaches the qualities that made him an exemplary general-and an even better friend and person.
THE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE.
Author: William ShakespeareChristian Literature
Author: "Gettysburg"
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Category : Gettysburg Campaign, 1863
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
LIFE
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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
The Railroad Trainman
Author: Federal Probation
Author: Customer Morale and Behavioral Effectiveness
Author: Harry L. JacobsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armed Forces
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Although psychologists have little or no continuing and direct input into military feeding systems in Europe, in the U.S., psychologists have been an integral part of military feeding research and development for almost three decades. The purpose of this paper is to present (a) the general role in food system research, (b) a sample of what is done now, and (c) some suggestions regarding the future.