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usmcr 
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Posted on: Oct. 27 2012,10:29 pm |
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just finished mad river by john sandford. excellent read, typical sanford book, well written, fast paced & good mystery. next up is bone bed by patricia cornwell.
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usmcr
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Posted on: Nov. 07 2012,10:23 pm |
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bone bed by cornwell just so so - the racketeer by grisham is an ok read looked for a twsit at the end but not to be. i just cold not in vision a female lugging around gold bars to store at different sites due to the weight involved, but then again it is just fiction! i am now reading the panther by nelson demille. the novel takes place in yemen so should prove interesting. i have had these books on reserve at the library & they have all come up one after the other, so it has been a rather welcome diversion from the election!
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"Do not confuse dissent with disloyalty" Edward R Murrow
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Pretzel Logic
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Posted on: Nov. 21 2012,9:33 am |
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Finished reading "The Wilderness War" by Alan Eckart. It was a historical narrative of the revolutionary war . Written from excerpts of letters, journals and military correspondence. I have not read much in terms of this time period and location.
It centers around the Mohawk Valley region of New York and Pennsylvania and the Brittish and Iraquois League against the colonists.
The central figure in this is Joseph Brant who was on the side of the Brittish. The story the Last of the Mohiccans was written around him. I am sure I was supposed to read it in school, but didn't, nor have I watched the movie. Now I will have to, to see how it relates to what I have just read.
The Iraquois were ruthless in their attacks on the settlers. Fueled by the Brittish, who would pay at the time $10 per scalp. They had a system of marking them so to know if it was man, women or child. Whether they were killed working in the field or in the house. Whether they were shot, tomahawked or burned and tortured.
General Washingtons response was genocide of the indians fighting with the brittish. To march thru the territory and destroy the villages and crops before the coming winter.
The Iraquois were tremendous farmers. Reports of many acre fields of corn, with plants 17 ft. tall with ears 20 inches long. Vast orchards and fields of squash and other vegtables.
Just enough story to keep from being dry and an extensive footnote section to fill in the blanks.
Now off to" Ancient Evenings" by Norman Mailer
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Cheyenne
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Posted on: Nov. 21 2012,1:25 pm |
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Ghosts of War by Ryan Smithson...Awesome insight into the War in Iraq through the eyes of a 19 year old GI....very good not just the bad parts of war but the helping people parts of the war is central focus.
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Common Citizen
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Posted on: Nov. 27 2012,7:42 am |
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^We don't want to hear about how the US military helped people during the Iraq mission. That would make Pres. Bush look less like a war monger and more like a humanitarian...and we all know what that would do to the libs. 
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Posted on: Dec. 09 2012,10:45 am |
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black box by connelly was a good read, started out slow so if you do read it be patient. private london by patterson was also a good fast read & now have private berlin on reserve. panther by demille was justr so so.
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Posted on: Nov. 13 2014,10:30 pm |
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i highly recommend bill o"reilly's book killing patton. it narrates world war two in europe. it focuses on general patton. another book that i have just finished is the burning room by michael connelly.
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"Do not confuse dissent with disloyalty" Edward R Murrow
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Posted on: May 10 2015,11:55 pm |
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I'm currently reading Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War Amazon Link
The title threw me off, I make the mistake of judging a book by its cover or title too often. But the author is surprisingly intelligent and informed. Conservatives would probably appreciate Chapter 4: Valley of the Gun. Joe Bangeant repeats what many of us already know; many of the most liberal people out there are gun enthusiasts and hunters. The rest covers everything from wages to religion.
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Pretzel Logic
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Posted on: May 11 2015,2:15 pm |
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Mexico by James Michner.
Just when I thought I had read them all I find another one. The center of the story is about bullfighting. Bulls and matadors. The differences between the Spanish and Mexican fighters and the effects of Spain and the U S on Mexico. Well written and pulls you along. Always a good history lesson you did not learn in school to go along with it. 
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I stepped up on the platform
The Man gave me the news
He said you must be jokin' son
Where did you get those shoes?
Wally & Don
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