Everything that can go wrong will in this Vietnam reflection! Bravery trumps failure. Fantastic war experiences are turned into the story of an 18 year old private.
Hello, Wigwam
by L. John Lawrence
Book Category: Historical Fiction
Reviewed by Hodge Wood
ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1940310172
Mike Ferrara graduated from Syracuse University in 1969 and then spent eight years as an Air Force officer. After returning from duty in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war, Mike earned a Masters Degree from the Air Force Institute of Technology and then served for five years in the military space program. Mike left the Air Force in 1979 to pursue a thirty year career on Wall Street.
After beginning his first novel in 1974 and having it rejected by a literary agent, he put writing on the back burner until his retirement when he wrote The Land of the Million Elephants.
Updated Aug.3, 2015
Three of my poems from the book Because I Fly (McGraw-Hill 2002, edited by Helmut H. Reda), are featured in a new exhibit at the Cradle of Aviation Museum, Long Island, NY. Aviators, Poets and Dreamers asks the question, "Why do we fly?" and runs from July 18th through Labor Day. The exhibit will then travel to libraries across Long Island. A huge thanks to Rod Leonhard at Cradle of Aviation Museum for selecting “A Little Boy’s Dream," "The Searcher," and "To Live to Fly" for the exhibit.
BLACK SUNDAY
January 14th, 1945 would be called by the Luftwaffe “Black Sunday” because of the disastrous losses they suffered that day. For the 390th Bombardment Group of the Eighth Air Force, based at Framlingham/Parham in East Anglia, it was mission 243, to Derben, Germany. For them, it also marked the greatest single mission loss during all of WWII, when an entire squadron was wiped out.