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Baile Ionaraora: The Campbells Are Comin’!

admin — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:31:51 +0000

John Campbell's fast-moving, action-packed memoir celebates the life of a centenarian and who was both successful as a centurion and a businessman.

The attentive reader will discover a great deal more than an American's long life and successful career. His hundred-year life story is set in the context of many of the great political, social, news, entertainment and leisure-time changes that have transformed the way we live our everyday lives.

His life-journey is that of a man who actually was "in the arena" in the trenches of war, bigtime broadcasting and the growth of the Leisure-time industries. He was always willing to try and dare new things. As Theodore Roosevelt might have said, "his place will never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat."

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History of the South Bend Fire Department

Mindstir Media Publishing — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 23:02:17 +0000

This is the "HISTORY OF THE SOUTH BEND FIRE DEPARTMENT" as best we know it. Written from the perspective of the department itself, it is first and foremost for the men and women of the South Bend Fire Department, and the citizens of South Bend who have supported us over the years. Looking back through the years up to our present time one can't help but see how today's SBFD is part of something much bigger than any single generation of stations, apparatus, and firefighters. As you turn through the pages of our department's growth and evolution hopefully you will realize how valuable our history is to a sense of pride, belonging and ownership. It is important for us not to forget where we came from.

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Soaring with Destiny: A USAF Pilot’s Memoirs of Challenges, Experiences & Accomplishments by Usaf (Ret ) Lt Col Chuck Miller

admin — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 02:55:42 +0000

"Soaring With Destiny" is the real-life story, fully color illustrated with over 100 color photos and graphics, of a once-young man who followed the guidance of his Guardian Angel(s) through harm's way, while exposing him to challenges, and accomplishments, learning and gathering experiences that paved the way to ever increasing opportunities and future assignments. It tells briefly of his early formative period as a child and shows how different pathways opened doors to successes along his career path; pathways that he never foresaw. After laying the ground work, the story begins with all-jet USAF Pilot training, followed by an "aborted" attempt to take what would prove to be a disastrous fighter assignment, and then latching on to the type of flying that many pilots have on their "bucket list," flying a vintage WWII C-47 that was best suited to taking him on the assignments that were gateways to greater and greater opportunity for deep challenge, development of undiscovered talents, and high-magnitude benefits to the USAF during the Vietnam War, and the Cold War.

Chuck Miller's story provides insights into the thrills of flying -- both low and slow C-47 aircraft, and then flying Heavy-Jet tankers in global support of aircraft that were decades before their time in unmatched high performance far greater than the tankers that refueled them in flight. The story describes in detail the choreography of this high altitude and high speed "ballet" between two dissimilar performing aircraft. It then advances to his following high-level Special Category assignment as a NATO exchange pilot with the Canadian Armed Forces with the mission to train them in the arts of aerial refueling, and gaining sufficient Canadian national skills and proficiency to legitimately fulfill a realistic wartime NATO mission scenario.

The author skillfully interweaves the many activities of a twenty year USAF career, including continued involvement for another decade after retirement, and the deeper spiritual impacts and meanings of Soaring with Destinies path to a fun filled, and meaningful high contribution to the USAF mission and security of the United States during his career and far into the future.

This is the book for anyone who wants to know more about selected USAF aircraft and their flight charactersitics; non-routine ballet of leading-edge aerial refueling; about how skill and knowledge are the primary pathways to career and advancement; and about how flying brings the aviator closer to understanding the Spirit of life and achieving his Destiny.

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We All Bleed Blue

admin — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 05:05:51 +0000

Follow the police career of the Author, who spent a career working within the black inner-city ghetto's of Richmond, California not unlike Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland. Find out what it's really like to work in such environments. A place that became one of the most crime ridden cities within the United States following the end of WWII. Left with a black and white populace who had come by the tens of thousands to work in the Kaiser Richmond Shipyards, one of the largest in the West Coast during the war effort. Many of the black's were left with nothing, no work, little housing and very little hope or opportunity. They were left with drugs, death and violence. Follow Sergeant Smith's career from the beginning to end. A career that saw many of his fellow officers and friends killed, wounded and injured policing the tough streets of Richmond and the Bay Area. Having served in many police details within the police department, he experienced what it was to be a white American who grew up near the Amish Country, in the farmland of Pennsylvania during the start of the civil rights movement. Martin Luther Kings, "I have a dream" speech in nearby Washington D.C., who then found himself in the battlegrounds of the inner-city. A city where the black community he served complained of police brutality, unjustified police shootings, and unfair profiling because of the color of their skin. A police department where Federal Lawsuits led to consent degrees that did not benefit the good of the department but led to internal strife among the sworn personnel. The results of Affirmative Action policies in hiring, promotions, and the effects felt within the agency which had been served by more than 90% of white sworn officers from its start in 1905. How the agency and the city suffered but started to find its way back by 2015.

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