I Didn't Fly Over... I Landed in It
I Didn't Fly Over... I Landed in It

Author: Wally Edmond

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2002-12-15

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0595758908

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Unfortunately, Life in the Rubber Room is never to become second nature for Richard Ulysses Lion. His true fortunate nature, however, is that of being overly cocky, mischievous, and fun loving at heart. He weaves a wildly variable tale through the erratically woven pages of his personal journal. A journal that is chock-full of crazy adventures, and randomly filled with many unusual and off the wall incidents. It is his Uncle Cletus who refers him to the State Mental Institution a.k.a. The Howard Hughes Hotel and who leaves him with these words "It's a crazy world in there, Richard. Even though them folks in that place might know how to play crazy eights, believe me, none of them are playing with a full deck of cards." Richard not only plays his cards right as he confronts the many hardships that come along with institutional life, he will also come to know, respect, and have a genuine concern for the folks who are living there. But as fate would have it Richard himself is dealt a bad hand through the onslaught of his many seizures to come. Richard's biological time clock is slowly ticking away. His story is not meant to be one of ridicule, belittlement, or making fun. Richard's story is meant only to capture and release the humorous side of human nature itself.

Flight of the Mariner
Flight of the Mariner

Author: Zachariah Wahrer

Publisher: Wahrer of the Worlds Publishing

Published: 2018-01-15

Total Pages: 9

ISBN-13:

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When five torpedo bombers disappear off the coast of Florida during a training flight in 1945, Wally and his flight crew are sent to look for them. They head out over the stormy Atlantic in their Mariner seaplane, searching the dark ocean for survivors. They find the downed planes, and with them, something far more sinister.

Dreamers Refuse to Be Victims
Dreamers Refuse to Be Victims

Author: Milan “Lou” Voticky

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2019-04-11

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 1525531069

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Upheaval. Flight. Terror. Insecurity. Milan Voticky and his family faced all of this when the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939 forced them to escape to Shanghai. Liberated from the Shanghai ghetto in 1945, the Voticky family made their way back to Prague, only to find themselves fleeing Czechoslovakia once again — this time from the Communists. When they finally found permanent refuge as in Canada, Milan swore that would refuse to see himself as a victim. He would seize every possible opportunity. In this, he finds common cause with the Dreamers, the 1,800,000 undocumented children of illegal immigrants in the USA who are covered by DACA. “As a two-time refugee from oppression and death,” Voticky writes, “I can understand the Dreamers’ fear of being sent to a country and culture that they don’t know or understand, where the language is one they do not speak, where they have no family or friends.” In addition to being the remarkable story of a remarkable man, Dreamers Refuse to Be Victims is a call to all those fleeing injustice to take charge of their own futures.

Pucker Factor 10
Pucker Factor 10

Author: James Joyce

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-08-24

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0786454059

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"In 1963...there was no way I could have known, sitting in a classroom on that beautiful campus in Ohio, that by raising my hand I would be going to war in Vietnam and that I would see things, hear things and do things that most people cannot imagine."--James Joyce. The author was drawn into the United States Army through ROTC, and went through training to fly helicopters in combat over Vietnam. His experiences are notable because he flew both Huey "Slicks" and Huey "Gunships": the former on defense as he flew troops into battle, and the latter on offense as he took the battle to the enemy. Through this book, the author relives his experiences flying and fighting, with special attention given to his and other pilots' day-to-day lives--such as the smoke bombing of Disneyland, the nickname given to a United States Army-sponsored compound for prostitution. Some of the pilots Joyce served with survived the war and went on to have careers with commercial airlines, and many were killed.

Subcommittee on Real Estate Consideration of S. 3148, to Provide for the Conveyance of All Right, Title, and Interest of the United States Reserved Or Retained in Certain Lands Heretofore Conveyed to the City of El Paso, Tex
Subcommittee on Real Estate Consideration of S. 3148, to Provide for the Conveyance of All Right, Title, and Interest of the United States Reserved Or Retained in Certain Lands Heretofore Conveyed to the City of El Paso, Tex

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Real Estate

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13:

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Committee Serial No. 91. Considers S. 3148, to deed permanent rights to part of Fort Bliss Military Reservation to the city of El Paso, Tex.

Tomorrows Promise
Tomorrows Promise

Author: Edward R Kofke Sr

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-08-14

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1300786248

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With an 'I'm going to make it attitude', Tomorrows Promise is a compilation of the diary 18 year old Eddie Kofke kept of his experiences and adventures during WWII from enlistment to discharge. Join the flights as young Ed shares the details of the 50 combat missions he flew as the tail gunner aboard the invincible B-24 Liberator, the Shoo-Shoo Baby. Laugh along with the crew as they experience numerous side adventures both overseas and stateside. As part of the 15th Air Force, 464th Bomb Group, the 'Baby' was one of 65 'Olive Drab' B-24's leaving Pocatello, Idaho in 1944. The Shoo-Shoo Baby was the first to finish all 50 missions with the original crew still intact, without one injury or death and the only 'Olive Drab' ship still flying in the 779th. The other 64 ships and 640 men were gone or replaced with many replacements replaced. This was despite 5 missions to the Ploesti oil refineries and being the number one target on Hermann Goering's Elite Luftwaff's kill list.