: About Me

Born in Barberton, Ohio in 1956.
Attended Norton Schools. Graduated 1975 from Norton High School.
Spent three years in the US Army, most of that time in Italy. Two months spent training with the Italian Alpini troops in the Italian Alps.
Attended University of Maryland (European Division).
Graduated (BA) from Harding University in 1981 with a major in Bible and minor in Psychology.
Graduated (MS in Counseling Psychology) from Frostburg State University in 1989.

Author of THE REUNION, a Civil War Historical Novel and LISTEN TO THE WIND.

Currently serve as Director of Student Support Services and adjunct philosophy instructor at Potomac State College of WVU.

My passion is ...

Family, writing, and photography.

I know too much about ...

Civil War History

My parents always told me ...

never to eat the yellow snow.

My childhood ambition ...

was to become a minister.

My favorite memory ...

is watermelon under a shade tree in the summer and grandma's.

Why I write ...

I write because I have to express myself.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Italian history.

My first job ...

Soldier.

My best moment ...

Birth of my first child.

Politics, News & Issues > Soldiers & Veterans Commentary: Tribute to America's veterans

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An Apology to World War II Veterans An elderly gentleman gave me something over thirty years ago that really belongs to you World War II veterans. I think it's time that I pass it on. I am a thief who took, enjoyed, and hoarded something of yours. He meant for you to have it, but he gave it to me. The Mitzels had always been good to me back in Clinton, Ohio-my hometown. When I learned that they were vacationing in Vienna, I took a week's leave to go intercept them. The year was 1977. I was a young soldier stationed in northern Italy. A friend had written, giving me the Mitzels' itinerary a...

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