Those of us who are over sixty are not amused at being compared to aging wine, and certainly not cheese.

In this book thirty of us - writers, educators, businesswomen, motivational speakers, mothers, grandmothers, retirees, an artist, a hairdresser, a psychic, a farmer, a psychologist, and a burlesque dancer - each share a story about something that changed everything. We think that you - especially if you're a woman over sixty - will laugh and cry and maybe gasp at these funny, enlightening, and bawdy tales because they'll remind you of your own life. So read, enjoy, and reminisce.

Then have fun talking about What We Talk About with your friends. You'll end up saying, We could write a book, too! We promise.

Reinvesting in Your Rhetoric is your guide to becoming confident, communicating clearly, and delivering the best speech of your career. By defining and understanding your communication baseline, the OCD Presentation Method(TM) will allow you to become a better communicator and speaker, all while establishing a meaningful connection with your audience. Its memorable three-part application is designed to help you organize your message, develop audience-centered content, and deliver your message through your natural strengths and authentic delivery style. Author Jill Slye has both utilized and coached others through the OCD Presentation Method(TM) and relishes in the success of her clients and students. She is dedicated to her vision of changing the world one speech at a time.

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Set amidst what is now the American southwest, Endless Horizon paints a thrilling portrait of a quest for survival in a space and time where previously isolated individuals, cultures, and nations collided. This first in a series of historical thrillers begins in 1846 and follows a father and son leaving their home and making their way to Santa Fe, a first-of-its-kind United States foreign expeditionary force on a mission to double the size of the young country, a pair of Spaniards commissioned to retrieve an Incan artifact, and a young Navajo trying to find his way home. All of this through the prism of the least known but perhaps most significant and life-changing discoveries of the Nineteenth century.

According to the 'ancient ones, ' the discovery is what physically remains of a benevolent, divine entity who walked the earth during times of great human distress, always coming from and leaving by the ocean, hence his name: Viracocha or 'Foam of the Sea.'

Credited with performing astounding miracles, this being's timeless message is one that echoes not just in Incan legend or the desolate canyons of Arizona and New Mexico, but around the world: love each other and love...something bigger. Many embraced this message and sought to protect the ancient artifact. Those that did not sought to either destroy it or use its mysterious powers to further their own causes and desires.

From black lava tunnels to red rock canyons, high desert plains to breathtaking shorelines, Endless Horizon races towards the perennial message that only through connection can we truly live.

A book about practical NCO leadership and the importance of presence--no doctrine, no philosophy, no war stories.

Behind the Colors is based on the premise that NCOs should master specific skills at each level of Leadership. It includes practical stories of success and failure to highlight the importance of mastering these skills, which will carry an NCO through their career.

Behind the Colors is a Leadership Book for Soldiers of all ranks: Past, Present and Future. Appropriate for all ages and applicable in life as well as service to the Nation as a Noncommissioned Officer in the Army.

A first person account of the Second Battalion, Seventh Cavalry's participation in the Second Battle of Fallujah, the largest single engagement of the Iraq War and the largest urban battle since Hue in 1968. A First Marine Division operation, it was spearheaded by one of the most famous Army units in history. Ghosts of Fallujah is a heartfelt and somber recount of the battle, the influence of history, personal leadership, and how that can change lives.

A daughter unravels the mystery behind her World War II Veteran Father's acquisition of Heinrich Himmler's personally annotated copy of Mein Kampf.

Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and Gestapo and the architect and administrator of the concentration camps during WWII, oversaw the systematic murder of more than ten million Jews and other innocent people. The story of what happened to Himmler's personal copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, the book that inspired him, and the story of the soldier who brought it home from war-torn Europe are told for the first time in this tribute to the 4th Infantry Division's 22nd Infantry Regiment during the war.

Drawing on her experience in battlefield documentation for the American Battlefield Protection Program, the author undertook a journey to defend her father's honor after he was accused by a stranger of lying about how he obtained the faded and worn copy of Mein Kampf. She began with her father's narrative of his experiences as a Second World War infantry rifle platoon leader, which she discovered two days after he died in 1991. With that as a guide, she traced his regiment's footsteps from D-Day to VE Day to uncover the truth.

I began this book to understand my father's silence about war, Marshall writes, I finished it to honor that silence. The more I listened to the soldiers and civilians forever impacted by the deadly conflict, the more the faded Mein Kampf came to represent the profound warning of an old veteran, 'of the horrors that we are capable of, to remind us not to go down that road again'.

This collection of horse stories, based on my experiences, with occasional literary hyperbole to keep it interesting, is written for men, by a man, and I expect will never be read by a man. In all likelihood only women, including your wife, will read this.

Whether new to the game or a veteran, you might as well plan for the coming shift in your future. She will look at you, her arm still in a sling from the minor surgery she required after getting kicked by the horse you have always hated, and with her good hand, point at my small book sitting on the coffee table. Melvin, that horse husband guy says we have to get some Metamucil for the babies, stall mats for the barn's center aisle, and I don't care if you have to unload it, I'm ordering a semi of decent hay from Idaho next year.

Happy horsin', Melvin.

Randy Ark was raised on a small farm outside Springfield, Ohio. He was drafted into the Army in 1967, a year after high school graduation. He served as a medic in Vietnam with the 1st Infantry Division from August 1968 to August 1969, where he was awarded three Army Commendation Medals and a Purple Heart.

He earned a Master's Degree in Education from Wright State University and taught school for 32 years, retiring in 2007. After retiring, he became involved with the Military Order of Purple Heart and other veterans organizations. He served on the Board of Directors of the National Honor Flight Network.

Randy is married with three grown children and four grandchildren.

Firefights, mortar attacks, and friendly fire were all part of the experiences of an infantryman in the jungles of the Central Highlands of Vietnam. But bugs, leeches, exhaustion, swamps, accidents, snakes, C-rations, digging in, cutting overhead cover, grief, humor, camaraderie, rain, thirst, impressive weapons, useless weapons, care packages, and much, much more filled up most of the infantryman's one-year tour in Vietnam.

Daily life as an infantryman in Vietnam was a completely foreign experience compared to the lives most young American soldiers knew growing up. The war and the jungle saw to that. Soldiers had to cope and adapt. Almost all did.

In this book, the author tells many stories of events he personally experienced during his year in Vietnam. Through these stories, he aptly describes the daily life and shared experiences of soldiers in the 4th Infantry Division in the jungles of Vietnam's Central Highlands.

Anyone who has a personal connection with someone who served as an infantryman in Vietnam or simply has curiosity about infantry life in Vietnam will better understand, after reading this book, the answer to the question What was daily life like for them there?

There are times when military organizations find themselves in a moment of historical significance. This book captures such an event - the capture of Saddam Hussein. The story is told through the eyes of the troopers on the ground working with Army Special Operations Forces. From home station training, deployment, ambushes, and the capture of a dictator, readers will get a glimpse of war in Iraq during the initial stages in 2003. Packed with vivid descriptions, Soldier level challenges, and lessons learned, future leaders will gain a better understanding of how to prepare for and conduct small unit operations in combat. This is a book you must read if you ever have to serve in combat. I lived through many of the experiences described in the book and yet, I could not put the book down.

Ninety-nine percent of this book consists of my father's own words, and a similar proportion of the cartoons, maps and pictures contained herein, he himself either clipped from his issues of Stars and Stripes and Yank Magazine, or he snapped with a buddy's camera. Dad was an excellent writer - concise, entertaining, informative. As a radio operator in a half-track squad of the Radio Section of HQ and HQ Company of the 12th Infantry Regiment, Fourth Infantry (Ivy) Division, Ralph's very personal account offers a unique perspective of the War.

However, as Dad wrote more than once, he knew little about the big picture or grand strategy of the war. He hardly knew where he was or where he had been, let alone where he was going or the reasons behind any of it. That is why he kept a diary, and when he had the chance, liberated kids' geography books along the way and devoured every military news sheet he could find, in an attempt to piece together what he could of his whereabouts and movements.

Ralph spent the years between 1945 and 1950 entering his war memories and memorabilia into a single volume. That album crumbled and frayed badly with much handling over the ensuing twenty years. In 1972, he painstakingly transferred his narrative and other items into two, better quality volumes.

Inevitably, Dad's limited view of things resulted in some gaps in the military picture. To remedy this, I have inserted at strategic points in the book supplementary information, maps and photos intended to provide the reader with some clarifying context and background for Dad's very personal stories.

It has proved a challenging task to provide what I hope is helpful context and commentary, and, at the same time, ensure that my father's own eloquent voice remains clear and dominant. The reader will have to judge as to how well - or even whether - I succeeded.

Life in the military is unlike any other way of life. Where else are people collected from every corner of the nation, from every race and religion, from every socio-economic class and welded into a force that subordinates its own safety and self-interest to defend this country? Where else does this level of diversity form bonds of loyalty and comradeship that are stronger than the bonds of familial blood? In this collection of autobiographical stories covering a twenty-three-year army career, the author taps into the humor, sadness, joy, comradeship and adventure of army life.

This book should be required reading for NCO's, junior officers and senior leaders. Ajax describes in compelling detail tactical level actions and tough decisions that had strategic consequences.

A detailed, finely-researched account not just of one battalion, but of the complex, grueling nature of the post-Saddam insurgency.

Top notch history that is simultaneously hard to put down. A rare combination... Critical to understanding the Marine victory in Iraq's toughest province; Anbar...

Bastards & Brothers tells the story of the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment (3/2) -- aka the Bastards of Betio-- fighting in the wild west of Anbar Province, Iraq in 2005. In the spring and blazing summer of that year, 3/2 took on the gathering forces of Al-Qaida in Iraq (the precursor of ISIS), hunted and engaged arch-terrorist Abu-Musab al Zarqawi, withstood fanatical suicide bombers and defeated the enemy in several major operations and hundreds of firefights.

At the same time, they also forged an unlikely partnership with former insurgents among a local Iraqi tribe. In the middle of a deadly battlezone, and despite prevailing guidance, young Marines found a way to talk with tribal leaders who joined forces in the struggle against Zarqawi and AQI. This tentative alliance was the first time an Iraqi tribe openly sided with the Marines and the coalition, ultimately sparking the historic Anbar Awakening in 2006 which in turn paved the way for the success of the surge in 2007.

This is an untold story, overlooked by other writers and publishers, that covers a true pivot-point in the Iraq War. It is the product of deep research, including over 200 author interviews with veterans from 3/2 and others who were there, ranking from the most junior boot Marines to the battalion and regimental commanders. While these first-hand accounts are the beating heart of the text, the author has expertly folded in operational and strategic context, making this a unique book in its genre.

The 4th Infantry Division (4ID) was the Utah Beach assault division at H-Hour, D-Day, June 6, 1944; a liberator of the port city of Cherbourg on June 25, 1944; part of the St. Lo breakout on July 25, 1944; and a liberator of Paris on August 25, 1944. On September 11, 1944, 4ID troops were the first to breach the impenetrable Siegfried Line. In November 1944, they slugged it out with the Germans in the Hurtgen Forest, their toughest fight of the war. December found them holding the southern shoulder of the Battle of the Bulge. January through early May 1945 saw their second penetration of the Siegfried Line, the battle of Prum, and a constant pursuit of the retreating German army into their homeland.

The 4ID was a key unit in winning the European theater of World War II, as were many other units. Included are their training days, their fighting days, and their return home to become the Greatest Generation.

Told from the daily after action reports, excerpts from books written by 4ID Soldiers and historians, personal stories written by 4ID veterans, and other sources make this the all-inclusive history of the 4th Infantry Division in World War II - from June 1940 to March 1946.

Beyond the Battlefield is a compilation of 15 true stories based upon candid interviews with service members from all branches of the military. These stories bring to light the challenges of both combat and non-combat experiences while serving. In addition to these stories, the author introduces mindfulness and meditation as potential tools to help navigate the many difficulties that are addressed throughout the interviews with the hope of making these tools more accessible and acceptable within the mainstream military culture. This book is complete with heartfelt and sincere storytelling coupled with more objective and scientific data backing the usefulness of meditation and mindfulness within the context of military life.