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This textbook is the true account of three soldiers who wouldn't stop fighting the enemy and never raised the white flag during a firefight. One soldier, an Army Aviator, was shot down and fell 800 feet in his burning helicopter. Another was an infantry Sergeant stationed at LZ Bert when it was overrun by the North Vietnamese Army. The third was a retired Sergeant from the USAF who was wounded in a motor attack on the American Embassy. All three men had been wounded more than once in firefights and received impact awards for heroism during combat with the enemy. All have been denied the wearing of the Purple Heart by the Chief of the Army Awards Branch. This book contains images of research papers, letters and pictures the author used to verify their stories of the Vietnam War.

Because all records of the WASP's efforts were classified and sealed for 35 years, many in this country are unaware of their work as military pilots during WWII. These women were pioneers and the expertise they demonstrated in successfully flying every type of military aircraft, from the fastest fighters to the heaviest bombers, blazed a trail for women of future generations.Learn a little history as you read WASPs of WWII, and have a little chuckle at the author's expense. This story gives you a peak into one moment in the history of these courageous women. The author recounts his personal experience with one WASP pilot in particular, and shows how a joke can sometimes be dangerous to one's health! _____________About the author: Ben R. Games, PhD, is a much-decorated veteran of three wars - World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, who flew bombers, jet fighters and Chinook helicopters. He retired from the military after 35 years.

The Terrorist's Mirror is a semi-biographical nonfiction story of a Chief Warrant Officer of the US Army taking his wife on a trip through a free fire zone in Vietnam as bait for an ambush. The plan for the trap was conceived by the Commander of a 1st Calvary Division tanks battalion, and approved by the Commanding General of the Saigon Special Operations and Bill Colby CIA Operations. The success of the trap depended upon complete secrecy, and needed to appear logical and genuine to the North Vietnamese. There was one Chief Warrant Officer and his wife who lived on the Thai Firebase Bearcat. He had flown with the Thai Marine Police in Bangkok and was working with the South Vietnamese Minister of Information, Mr. Cat Lee. He had also worked off and on in the shadows during WW-II, the Korean War, and now flew snatch & grab missions for the CIA in Vietnam. President Lincoln had it right when he said, "Any Congressman who takes action to destroy the moral of a soldier during war time should be charged as a traitor, deported or hanged."

This semi-biographical tale is narrated by Montana, guide dog and Chief of Security for the Games Clan, He describes the secret war that took place on a remote group of islands in the Caribbean and how the islands' Patriots and the members of the Games Clan worked to keep the drug cartels, the Russians and the communists from ruining this tiny island paradise. JAGS McCartney, Chief Minister of the people of the Turks & Caicos Islands, BWI, in 1980, leasds the Patriots as they match wits with spies, self-serving politicians and drug lords in the fight to save their home. Just when things start to look up, JAGS is killed in a plane crash. His death is highly suspicious and the Games Clan believes he was killed because his people were winning the battle. To this day there are individuals who believe that the leader of the Games Clan, Ben R. Games, PhD, was involved in a conspiracy to suspend the Islands' Charter and keep the people from knowing that the drug cartels were wining. Those who were there know different. Read Montana's account and look at the historical documents, then decide for yourself.

This is a nonfiction story covering 2 1/2 years of a CIA Contract Agent in Vietnam. It was the period when the Paris Peace Talks name was changed to the Paris Peace Accord to prevent the American people from learning that the United States had given up the fight to save the Vietnamese people from the Communist. It was a strange war where the citizen-soldiers of the United States never lost a battle but were defeated by the Communist lies told to their families at home. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) discovered the Communist Plan to move the North Vietnamese Army on selected routes to encircle the US Army and trap them in Saigon to create an American Dunkirk on the day the Paris Peace Accord was to take affect. It would prove to the world that the US Army had run from the battle field. Mr. William Colby head of the CIA efforts in Vietnam was informed of the Communist Plan, and he along with a few patriots in the CIA developed a system to give the US Army time to leave Vietnam in a controlled military disengagement. This plan was so secret that no name was given to it and only the men who were fighting to save America from becoming a Communist State knew. Bill Colby used every tool available to him. One was a CIA Contract Agent Gilbert H. Moriggia, a CIA Interrogator, and another was the secret CIA Dai Phong Program. The basic plan was simple a matter of obtaining immediate intelligence and to destroy the communist (VC) in all junction of the North Vietnamese Army's transportation routes to Saigon. This is the adventure story of how a CIA Contract Agent helped Bill Colby's give the US Army time to save themselves.

Montana's Vacation is a true story about a famous black Labrador Retriever who graduated from Southeastern Guide Dog School and is taking his companion on a cruising vacation in the Caribbean. At school he was taught intelligent disobedience, and he thinks that ocean waves are a danger to his companion. On a visit to Half Moon Cay she is going to take him wadding in the surf, so he can have fun playing in the water. Have you ever seen a 90 pound black Labrador through himself at a 120 pound woman to keep her out of the water? She spent more time laying on the sand than walking. He did his job and no wave touched her. On this cruise Montana has received a pin and been inducted as a Holland American Line Mariner. Montana believes that he can communicate with his companion with his mind by staring into her eyes. After reading his story it is easy to think that he may have telepathic ability. According to him he has been sailing on working vacations for over 35 years, but in people years this is his forth cruise.