This book is about the memoirs of a US Marine Veteran who was born in a small town in the hills of Asco, West Virginia to a coal mining family. The Bishop family was poor and went through the rations of World War II. After the war, he decided to join the US Marine Corps after his high school graduation and served in the Vietnam War. He retired after 20 years of military service and decided to help build the American Legion to further assist the veterans in Alaska. He continued to serve the veterans for 27 years all the way to the national level before he became a Presidential Appointment as a Liaison to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in Washington DC. This is about the journey of Master Sergeant William M Bishop, USMC (Ret) which will take you through the lost generation when life was simple as he traversed his destiny with the purpose he was born to live. Experience being with him throughout the chapters of the book.

An in-depth account of the World War II battle of Iwo Jima, immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the raising of the American flag on Mt. Suribachi, describes the events of the battle between U.S. Marines and Japanese forces, as well as Rosenthal's ten days on Iwo Jima during the conflict, in a narrative complemented by more than 120 archival combat photographs. 50,000 first printing.

Stories of the bohemian fly fishers of New Zealand.

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Maria, the nurse and nanny. invokes Haitian Voodoo to protect those she loves from her damaged and violent sister Andrea. And Michael. the wealthy man between them fights desperately to save his infant son and escape with the sister he truly loves. This exhilarating saga of love and revenge sweeps us from Hispaniola in 1916. where the sisters' ancestors lived in poverty to the lurking drug culture of Balboa Panama and finally to the U.S. The ripples of the sisters' history spread insidiously and threatens all Michael has built. Will the Voodoo meant to protect them save them? Or will it bring death to Michael and his son?