Pigeons were crucial to communications between Allied troops in both world wars. When phone, radio, and telegraph lines were cut or officers needed to send top secret information, it was pigeons that they depended on to reach support staff far from the front. In fact, pigeons earned the most medals of any animal for their services during these conflicts. Discover how pigeons were domesticated and trained for use in military conflicts, learn about some of their most daring flights, and find out what other ways pigeons and humans work together.

Grenada. 1985. Ash "Mouth of the South" Ledbetter now deals with the repercussions of a favor he did for an old friend from Vietnam. Richard is young and inexperienced. The life of a soldier of fortune may not be for him as he has come to find out the hard way. But Ash and his second in command, Kane Shigimoto do their best to prepare Richard for the life of a Mercenary, so they can help Richard and his family.

Jamestown's American Portraits, an American saga of families and friends, traces the history of America through many generations and cultures from the viewpoint of adolescent girls and boys. Young readers will be captivated by these novels that span history-changing events -- from the founding of Jamestown to World War II and beyond -- and that enrich their reading skills and knowledge of American history. -- Exciting and absorbing novels for readers age 9-12 that are accessible to students of differing reading skills -- Features talented and award-winning young adult authors such as Susan Beth Pfeffer, James Lincoln Collier, Peter and Connie Roop, and G. Clifton Wisler -- Stories are told by a diverse set of narrators with whom all children can identify

Living in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where her father is involved in a secret government project in the final months of World War II, thirteen-year-old Mattie carries on a constant debate with her twelve-year-old cousin Virgil about the relative merits of boys

In The Prestige of Violence Sally Bachner argues that, starting in the 1960s, American fiction laid claim to the status of serious literature by placing violence at the heart of its mission and then insisting that this violence could not be represented. Bachner demonstrates how many of the most influential novels of this period are united by the dramatic opposition they draw between a debased and untrustworthy conventional language, on the one hand, and a violence that appears to be prelinguistic and unquestionable, on the other. Genocide, terrorism, war, torture, slavery, rape, and murder are major themes, yet the writers insist that such events are unspeakable. Bachner takes issue with the claim made within trauma studies that history is the site of violent trauma inaccessible to ordinary representation. Instead, she argues, both trauma studies and the fiction to which it responds institutionalize an inability to address violence. Examining such works as Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night, Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, Bachner locates the postwar prestige of violence in the disjunction between the privileged security of wealthier Americans and the violence perpetrated by the United States abroad. The literary investment in unspeakable and often immaterial violence emerges in Bachner's readings as a complex and ideologically varied literary solution to the political geography of violence in our time.

Enjoy the journey, and embrace the positive change created by the military transition Connie underwent as she served her country, nation, and each and every citizen born in the United States of America. Connies joy comes from serving others through her career and through her writings. Daily, Connie remembers the eternal heroes. Some gave some, some gave ALL, but ALL gave something.