MY POEMS MY ARMY PRIDE

About the Book

I was in the Army from nineteen sixty-one to nineteen sixty-four. I worked with the Nike Hercules Atomic Warhead Missile as a computer operator. I had training in Fort Bliss Texas, and Fort Leonard wood Mo. From they're to Franklin lakes New Jersey. I being from the south was stationed mostly with people from New York, Mass. And in that area.

I have kept in touch with a few for forty years. I cherish that friendship.

I've thought about those times in the Army over the years, but now in my older years I realize how important our job was during that time.

About the Author

I served in the Army from nineteen sixty-one through nineteen sixty-four. My work was with the Nike Hercules Atomic Warhead Missile as a computer operator. I trained at Fort Bliss, Texas and Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, then on to Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Being from the south, I was stationed mostly with people from New York, Massachusetts and the northeast area.

A few of us have kept in touch for forty years and I cherish those friendships. As I remember those times in the Army, I realize just how important our job was during that time.

I am an Army veteran, a proud Army veteran. I have such great feelings for the soldiers today and in my poems I try, on the last line, for the reader, perhaps for a second, to feel the pain that the soldier and that all veterans go through.

I now live with my wife of thirty-eight years in Mooresville, N.C.