Accuracy: A Brief Guide to Precision Shooting
Category: Books
The Author: Frank Troy honed his marksmanship skills at the Army Marksmanship Unit (AMU) at Ft. Benning, GA, from 1963-65. Later, collaborating with AMU coach Bill Pullum, he co-authored three highly successful books on competitive shooting. This latest book updates his previous writings and provides new scientific insights into the deep, “invisible” principles of precision marksmanship.
Beads of Water: Finding Relief: Notes and Poems about living 70+ years with PTSD
Category: Books
This book gives anyone a better understanding of PTSD and describes a number of coping mechanisms to help PTSD victims as well as their providers and caretakers.
Kamerad
Category: Poetry
A great poem written by a 10th Special Forces Vietnam Veteran.
Animal Land, An Allegorical Fable of WWII
Category: Books
Free digital version (PDF) of book upon request. E-mail whipple1@bellsouth.net. Place "Request Book" in subject line.
Medal of Honor at Iwo Jima
Category: Personal Experiences
First Lieutenant Jack Lummus, USMC Reserve
Iwo Jima - February 23, 1945
Category: Personal Experiences
Raising the Flag
In Eternal Remembrance
Category: Personal Experiences
December 7, 1941
HONORING OUR VETERANS
Category: Personal Experiences
In Profound Gratitude for their Commitment and Sacrifice on our Behalf
NORMANDY
Category: Personal Experiences
Uncommon Valor – June 6, 1944
Not All Of Us Were Heroes - A Tribute To Those Who Served
Category: Books
Forrest Gump, of the Tom Hanks featured movie fame, is a name familiar to many. Movie characters are of course, just that: characters portrayed by actors and not completely genuine, though their portrayals may demonstrate some higher or nobler virtue to which we hopefully aspire. Ed Sikora is certainly not the naïve and seemingly slow-witted character played by Hanks, who nonetheless entertained and awed us through his humble genius. Sikora demonstrates those fruits of an honorable simplicity and singularity of purpose that made Gump a hero in everyone’s eyes, even though he never considered himself such. To Gump, everything he did was just “all in a day’s work”, so to speak, simply what a person needed to do. So too with Ed Sikora.