[PDF] Soldiering On Finding My Homes eBook

Author : Christine Kriha Kastner
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 28,64 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Children of military personnel
ISBN : 1456741845

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Some military brats rode camels in Arabia . . . others leaped from parachute training towers . . . but this little army brat rode backwards in the rear "jump-seat" of the family station wagon all the way across America . . . without a seatbelt! Christine Kriha Kastner grew up the only way she knew-on military bases stateside and around the world. By the time she turned in her military I.D. card, when her father retired from the U.S. Army, she had lived in fifteen different houses and attended ten different schools. Situation normal for an army brat. Living on Okinawa was a memorable overseas assignment. So when an opportunity to return to that little island in the Pacific Ocean arose after forty years, she couldn't pass it up. Kastner returned to the island she remembered from her youth-with the 73-year-old mother of one of her best friends. Together, they took a Kubasaki High School reunion trip timed to coincide with the 4th Uchinanchu Festival that brought thousands of Okinawans back to the island from all over the world. It was the adventure of their lifetimes, just not quite the karaoke, sake and pachinko experience they expected.

Author : Christine Kriha Kastner
Publisher : Author House
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1456741837

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Some military brats rode camels in Arabia . . . others leaped from parachute training towers . . . but this little army brat rode backwards in the rear jump-seat of the family station wagon all the way across America . . . without a seatbelt! Christine Kriha Kastner grew up the only way she knewon military bases stateside and around the world. By the time she turned in her military I.D. card, when her father retired from the U.S. Army, she had lived in fifteen different houses and attended ten different schools. Situation normal for an army brat. Living on Okinawa was a memorable overseas assignment. So when an opportunity to return to that little island in the Pacific Ocean arose after forty years, she couldnt pass it up. Kastner returned to the island she remembered from her youthwith the 73-year-old mother of one of her best friends. Together, they took a Kubasaki High School reunion trip timed to coincide with the 4th Uchinanchu Festival that brought thousands of Okinawans back to the island from all over the world. It was the adventure of their lifetimes, just not quite the karaoke, sake and pachinko experience they expected.

Author : Douglas C. McChristian
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 783 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0806159030

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“The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that’s the way we go,” runs the chorus in a Harrigan and Hart song from 1874. “Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army O!” The last three words of that lyric aptly title Douglas C. McChristian’s remarkable work capturing the lot of soldiers posted to the West after the Civil War. At once panoramic and intimate, Regular Army O! uses the testimony of enlisted soldiers—drawn from more than 350 diaries, letters, and memoirs—to create a vivid picture of life in an evolving army on the western frontier. After the volunteer troops that had garrisoned western forts and camps during the Civil War were withdrawn in 1865, the regular army replaced them. In actions involving American Indians between 1866 and 1891, 875 of these soldiers were killed, mainly in minor skirmishes, while many more died of disease, accident, or effects of the natural environment. What induced these men to enlist for five years and to embrace the grim prospect of combat is one of the enduring questions this book explores. Going well beyond Don Rickey Jr.’s classic work Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay (1963), McChristian plumbs the regulars’ accounts for frank descriptions of their training to be soldiers; their daily routines, including what they ate, how they kept clean, and what they did for amusement; the reasons a disproportionate number occasionally deserted, while black soldiers did so only rarely; how the men prepared for field service; and how the majority who survived mustered out. In this richly drawn, uniquely authentic view, men black and white, veteran and tenderfoot, fill in the details of the frontier soldier’s experience, giving voice to history in the making.

Author : Matty Cole
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1662488114

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In life, trials and tribulations are designed to destroy us. But with God, my challenges with abuse, drug addiction, hardship, betrayal, and loneliness could not break me. As I recount my life’s journey, His presence has been with me through it all. According to Romans 8:28 (AMP), “And we know [with great confidence] that God [who is deeply concerned about us] causes all things to work together [as a plan] for good.” Hope and trust in God always, and you, too, will find yourself still standing.

Author : J. A. Bernstein
Publisher : New Issues Poetry and Prose
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936970582

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"Rachel's Tomb is a deftly ambitious novel about young soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces and the loved ones they've left behind. It brings to life with great artistry a diverse cast of secular and religious Jews, Arabs, Russian and Ethiopian immigrants, soldiers and civilians--a complex image of Israel. The book's absurdist humor gracefully counterpoints the waste, loss, and early sorrow faced by its indelibly drawn characters."--Zachary Lazar "Rachel's Tomb is at once profound, moving and deeply engaging, a novel that puts you right in the middle of one of the world's most ancient and intractable conflicts." --T. C. Boyle "There's no shortage of complexity in Bernstein's book--politically and emotionally--but the writing is so clear and engaging that it allows the layers to emerge with a beautiful lucidity, and for the reader to live and think alongside them. There is a deep thoughtfulness on every page of this notable debut."--Aimee Bender "From the commander's seat (a toilet) at Rachel's Tomb Outpost, Joshua Bernstein creates a multi-narrational novel that plumbs the nature of war with humor, compassion, and an astounding historical depth, one that ricochets from the sacred to the profane in a trigger's stroke. He writes about war from the inside and creates complex characters that are often as joyously imperiled as an e.e. cummings line: 'death's clever enormous voice which hides in a fragility / of poppies...' --A complex and moving novel that confronts the loss of innocence and profoundly questions notions of temporality."--Mark Irwin "Rachel's Tomb marks the arrival of an important new voice in American letters. J. A. Bernstein writes with power and sympathy and an unerring eye, in prose of crackling intensity. This is a magnificent first novel. I eagerly await the next."--Steve Yarbrough