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  • The Coffee Pot

    Before joining the army I really wasn’t much of a coffee drinker. My folks drank it by the gallon, my dad in particular a former Navy man. Of course my mother was addicted to it as well with and between the two of them they could go through two twelve cup pots a day without… →

  • Garrison Commander, Captain Charles Leib!

    A Short Story Captain Charles Leib Captain Leib took a seat in the outer office and waited for Lieutenant Goff to summons him into the office of the Clarksburg Garrison commander, Colonel Stanley “Ah, Good morning Captain Leib. Thank you for coming to my office so quickly. I’m sorry to have interrupted your morning routine.… →

  • The Harrowing Adventure of Captain Charles Leib

    To My readers: this short story is based upon my book “The Most Hated Man in Clarksburg” I hope that you enjoy the story! By Peter Taylor It was April 1862, and it had been an exhausting week in Washington DC. Captain Charles Leib had been ordered to Washington City to appear before a congressional… →

  • Staying in Touch with Home in Vietnam

    In my “Advisor Series” I use ‘letters’ as a ‘vehicle’ to tell my stories. In some cases, the letters are from home or from Tyler’s girlfriend in Saigon. In the stories these letters allow Tyler and his family as well as his girlfriend to reflect on events that are occurring in their daily lives. In… →

  • The Ambush at Nhon-Nhin-Three

    Good morning and Happy 4th of July! Note to my readers. Sometimes a good story just doesn’t seem to fit in a novel. It either adds to many pages to a chapter or requires the reader to shift gears to understand the placement of the story. This happened to be one of those forgotten stories.… →

  • Enlisted Training

    I did my basic combat training at Fort Benning, Georgia, “Home of the Infantry”. Since I was on an Officer Candidate School (OCS) track I was appointed as the “Platoon Goon”, or acting Platoon Sergeant. My job was basically to prepare my 44-man platoon for formations and to attempt to march them to and from… →

  • Kien Tuong Province in the Vietnam War

    I found this interesting article on-line and it is worth sharing with my readers. It is translated from Vietnamese to English and I’m certain that there are a number of translation issues however the gist of the material is very interesting. Much of it is a military history of the Kien Tuong Province and US… →