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Only eighty-seven African-Americans have received the Medal of Honor. This is the story of one of them. Andrew Jackson Smith received his medal in 1991, a full 137 years after his acts of bravery in the Battle of Honey Hill in 1864.
Hope you'll stop by the new 'Meet Robert Stanek' website @ http://www.robert-stanek.com/. I’ve been writing stories for many years. Though I’ve always been a writer at heart, I never set out to be a writer. What I wanted to be, I didn’t know when I said goodbye to high school. What I wanted to do though, I knew that: I wanted to see the world—and so I did while serving my country in distant lands.
Dispatches is now a quarterly publication that will be available in Kindle and epub editions as well as the online pdf for members. Please encourage your friends and family to purchase the Kindle and epub editions for the low cost of $2.99 per issue. The money generated will be used to provide print editions for military'related institutions such as veterans' homes, VA hospitals and nonprofit organizations.
On February 9, 2012, I attended a memorial service for MWSA member Trumbull Rogers who passed away after a long illness on September 4, 2012.
Trumbull's sister, Grace, was organizing the memorial service, a complicated affair as she was living in California and the service was going to be in Manhattan, where Trumbull had spent most of his life. Grace was contacting friends and organizations that Trum (as he was known) knew or was a member of. Her MWSA contact information had Maria Edwards' name and she forwarded the details to me.
I didn't start writing until I was 60 so I am a new old writer. That's not such a bad thing because by the time you reach such an age you have plenty of stories to tell and you are past the point where you crave fame and fortune. I started by writing short stories about my days as a US Army Security Agency Laotian Translator/Interpreter during the Vietnam War in Thailand and Laos. Some of these stories became "Tales of Ramasun" which has been reviewed by MWSA. I have just published another batch or Ramasun stories as well as some other non-military things. I had a lot of fun writing th
