An example of how two government agencies with common problems can blend. The knowledge and resources of each agency's investigators are shared to resolve problems affecting the safety and welfare of a regime and the American Army assisting that regime. Insidious spies, officials, opportunists and assassins create havoc in their atempt to succeed. Curruption riegns. In the midst of this exciting high adventure, love blooms and underlying business sense blossoms for the stars of this titilating and crime fighting novel. Unexpected young people come out of the past join the main players.
The text focuses on the capacity for good and evil in human beings and provides perspectives on the human capability to destroy and to create. It includes selections by authors such as Hermann Hesse, William Faulkner, E.B. White, and also includes excerpts from the Bible and from "Time" magazine.
Put it in Writing is a collection of short essays, stories, and poems chosen because they generate interesting and varied opportunities to use writing as the appropriate response. The selections are deliberately provocative. They evoke strong feelings - anger, compassion, disbelief, concern, resentment, fear - about major issues and ideas with which students are likely to have had some real or vicarious experience."--The preface.
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Art Myers is a Viet Nam veteran with memories. In 2005 he and his wife Linda traveled to Viet Nam with a group led by a psychotherapist who works with veterans affected by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). From the Mekong Delta in the south, to Hanoi in the north, it was a life-changing journey. Art's story is not unusual. He was a sergeant in the Marine Corps in 1968, a radio repairman stationed at Da Nang during the Tet offensive. He saw only one day of combat, but that day affected every aspect of his life for 35 years. Many veterans suffer from their memories of their time at war. They may bury them, or deny them, or run from them, or act out in other areas of their lives. Alcoholism, drug addiction and suicide rates are higher than average, as are failed relationships and chronic unemployment. Art decided to return to Viet Nam, to overlay the memories of the young man during a terrible time with those of a man in late middle age. It was a good choice for him - and for his family. About the book Art says, "I hope that talking about this journey of healing - and how it has changed me will help other veterans and their families. The idea of helping even one other veteran stop the nightmares and gain some peace made my story worth sharing.
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