Stories From an Unlikely Life
I'm Not a Writer
I am an old soldier who, like all old soldiers, loves to tell his stories. With more time on my hands, I am writing them down.
These are the stories that I have told over the years plus a few I may never have, the fun tales, not the ones I couldn't tell Mom.
I have always tried to relate them as they happened. When my buddies and I get together, we laugh about remembering details differently. That's probably normal but these are my stories; let them write their own.
I've often asked myself how an Alabama boy gets to do such things. I've never been able to answer that question. Perhaps the Fates love a Fool.
Enjoy my ridiculous life.
Help Received: Angels and Wizards
"Hemingway didn’t know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn’t know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it’s necessary.” ~ Pat Conroy