PILLARS OF THE POST - 85 veteran biographies from one VFW Post

[Floyd1977]

https://www.createspace.com/3757189

This is a fund-raiser for our local college's Student Veteran Scholarship Fund.

http://fairfaxstation.patch.com/arti...an-scholarship

[Guamsst]

From a VFW post? is it listed under Fiction.....LOL

Sounds like a great idea for a book actually.

[Floyd1977]

During the four-year process of interviewing vets, I actually found one guy who liberated another from a POW Camp on 29 April 1945. Neither knew a thing about the other's part in the liberation until I got them together. There were more real heroes than I had anticipated too (no, not everyone is a hero - but I was able to review the discharge papers or DD-214's of most and its not fiction). It was great to do but I'm glad the project is completed and the royalties are going to a good cause.

[Floyd1977]

One more thing about the hero part - the research helped us get the local Post Office named after one of our three-war vets who passed away. Naming a Post Office requires Federal legislation and the President's signature. He was awarded a Silver Star Medal in WW II and another in Korea - the real deal.

[Floyd1977]

http://www.myfoxdc.com/video?clipId=7335840

A Memorial Day interview about the book.

[Floyd1977]

The cover.

[Floyd1977]

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/...n-scholarship/

[Floyd1977]

Our book will be featured in the January 2013 issue of VFW MAGAZINE.

[Floyd1977]

delayed until the March issue...

[Floyd1977]

It was finally featured in the April 2013 issue of VFW Magazine (pages 48-49). It was a nice write up - appropriately, the only advertisements were firearms.