The American Veterans Cookbook

About the Book

Fifty percent of all author royalties from sales of The American Veterans Cookbook: A Collection of Recipes from Veterans and Their Families will be donated directly to the Armed Forces Veterans Homes Foundation, located in Suitland, MD. While the authors believe this organization is worthy of our support, we are not associated with it in any way whatsoever. This Foundation is a non-profit, non governmental organization that operates exclusively for charitable purposes and solely for the public welfare. The organization solicits, receives, manages and disburses financial resources by means of grants and awards to agencies nation wide that serve the needs of elderly and infirm veterans of America's armed forces.

If sales of this recipe collection go well, we plan to produce new editions in the future to continue our fund raising efforts for programs and projects that benefit American Veterans and their families. We appreciate very much your contribution to this worthy goal on behalf of our nation's veterans who have sacrificed so much to ensure our American way of life. Some have sacrificed life or limb(s), others their professional careers and schooling; still others have sacrificed their physical and/or mental health. We as a nation have an obligation to this special segment of our population that absolutely must be expressed in heartfelt ways and actions. Please join us in doing just that.

About the Author

Terry P. Rizzuti was born in Oklahoma in 1946. He spent most of his early youth in upstate New York before returning to Oklahoma in 1965. He joined the Marine Corps in 1966, served a tour in the northern I-Corps area of South Vietnam assigned to the 26th Marine Regiment, and was awarded the Purple Heart for shrapnel wounds. Rizzuti graduated with an English Literature degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1977, and then continued on to complete two years of graduate-level literature studies. Currently, Rizzuti is a writer living in Oklahoma. He is working on three novels, as well as trying his hand writing short stories.

R. E. Armstrong was born in a small town in Southeastern Oklahoma in 1948, the youngest son of Scot/Irish and American Indian parents. He grew up in a small town in Southern California a short distance from the border of Mexico. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in June 1967 and served with First Field Force in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. Armstrong holds a degree in Sociology from the University of Oklahoma (OU), and did graduate-level work at OU in Human Relations. He is a founding member serving on the executive board for OU?s Vietnam Memorial Scholarship Association. At this time he is working on a novel and doing research for other future writing projects.

R. E. Armstrong and Terry P. Rizzuti co-authored Veterans? Benefits: A Guide to State Programs, Greenwood Press, 2001.