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    Default Colin Gray Just Agreed to the Write the Foreword For My Book

    I'm all giddy! Now all I have to do is finish it. Particularly since my wife is buying Christmas presents with the advance money as we speak (or as we type).

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    Can we do the Oprah thing and have a council book club?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rank amateur View Post
    Can we do the Oprah thing and have a council book club?
    As long as I don't have to give you all a car. Or hug you.

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    We were doing a book of the month but stalled at John Robbs book. I think Dr. Metz book would be a good additon.
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    Default Oh Boy! Free Books!

    I agree with selil. Would this mean that Steve now has to give us all free books?

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    Do we need to discuss Steve's book? He's already told us everything that's in it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wm View Post
    Do we need to discuss Steve's book? He's already told us everything that's in it.
    LOL! Good point.

    I can't wait for the end. My writing is like something I heard a crusty old admiral say at the beginning of a presentation: "I speak without notes so I'm as anxious to hear what I'm going to say as you are."

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    Default Steve is writing a book? Who knew?

    Why wasn't I informed...

    I'll sign for an advance copy next time I go to B&N.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danny View Post
    I agree with selil. Would this mean that Steve now has to give us all free books?
    What a great idea

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    Default Tough crowd here...

    ... congrats on getting Colin Gray to write the intro and getting so close CINC HOME is spending the advance. Can't wait to read it.

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    Definitely a coup. Was it the BBQ that lured him in? I still am monitoring and coveting a slice of that. Disappointed 3 Dec was no-go terrain here for me.

    We can most definitely re-energize the BOMC forum. Let's plan on it. Everyone buy on Amazon through links at SWJ, we all win, and it's forum discussion time. Alright!

    Now all we need is the book finished and on the street!

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    Quote Originally Posted by SWCAdmin View Post
    Definitely a coup. Was it the BBQ that lured him in? I still am monitoring and coveting a slice of that. Disappointed 3 Dec was no-go terrain here for me.

    We can most definitely re-energize the BOMC forum. Let's plan on it. Everyone buy on Amazon through links at SWJ, we all win, and it's forum discussion time. Alright!

    Now all we need is the book finished and on the street!


    3 December turned into a goat rope for me. I am growing senile by the minute (whether due to the book or having two teenage daughters). Got to the Pentagon Doubletree and noticed I'd forgotten to pack socks and underwear. Braved the arctic weather and walked to Marshall's to get some. Later that night I noticed I'd packed two pajama shirts and no bottoms. So I slept upside down.

    Then the deal with losing my car in the Pentagon City garage. Then wreck on 270. Finally got home at 10.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveMetz View Post
    3 December turned into a goat rope for me. I am growing senile by the minute (whether due to the book or having two teenage daughters). Got to the Pentagon Doubletree and noticed I'd forgotten to pack socks and underwear. Braved the arctic weather and walked to Marshall's to get some. Later that night I noticed I'd packed two pajama shirts and no bottoms. So I slept upside down.

    Then the deal with losing my car in the Pentagon City garage. Then wreck on 270. Finally got home at 10.
    how things are going so far I would probably recommend you order all your necessities for home delivery and have all the other VIP's come to you.

    Otherwise we may never get the oportunity to buy it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ron Humphrey View Post
    how things are going so far I would probably recommend you order all your necessities for home delivery and have all the other VIP's come to you.

    Otherwise we may never get the oportunity to buy it.
    I'm planning to have the book jacket photo shot from the waist up. That way if I forget to pack underwear no one will be the wiser.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SteveMetz View Post
    I'm planning to have the book jacket photo shot from the waist up. That way if I forget to pack underwear no one will be the wiser.
    Heck, you might even be able to get away without the pants that way, in the event of a real senior moment.

    Just make sure you get your pajamas right the night before so you pose with the right orientation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SWCAdmin View Post
    Heck, you might even be able to get away without the pants that way, in the event of a real senior moment.

    Just make sure you get your pajamas right the night before so you pose with the right orientation.
    0900 Saturday and I've already cranked out 1500 words. This may turn out to be a good day.

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    Default Epilogue For My Book

    Revised version of a ditty that appeared in Military Review.

    Baghdad April


    Who would have thought even minutes ago
    Blackhawk swept from the taupe
    Medieval California Kuwait to the quivering sandust of Talil.
    Sweat, Al-Hilah, Marine bird, older than damp crew, machine
    Smell, vibration ammo cammo scraped paint web belts, still
    Tighten gray roar
    Chaos, nose down, brown. Just get us there.

    Now green. For ten thousand lives this river ran brown with blood
    Helping reeds limber bodies once passed as blind. Just get us there.

    Down, then there
    BIAP, uncrumbled hull
    Spurts and unthinking tremors, the shakti of nonduality,
    Bills unpaid as new planes kneel lame,
    Crying tarmac, shattered dust.
    Fade, then the comic book cantos: a prince of
    Babylon, sword of Assyria, builder of Ur, heavens perturbed,
    Trauma hung close in broken glass
    Facade (yet more)
    Meaning deep to those who looted that brief cosmic day
    Missed by those who watched.

    Stories, reprise, thunder run
    Endless dust nights of expendable men
    blind (they must have been)
    To spin a rusty truck against a tank
    With only, what? passion? hate?
    fear?
    Perhaps no thought at all
    Except to hope the engine would start (or not)
    and someone else would see.
    No matter. They are now mist, counters in a game.

    Destroy and build, Shiva in web gear
    While somewhere a bridge is lost. But what?
    Who is destroyer, who a builder? We know
    Often great power owns only dust.

    Still there is BIAP
    Flight out
    Home, strong shoulders
    Hiphop, fading you.
    And then
    A tiny point of blood receding on the glass.



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    Default Finished!!!

    Just shipped that bad boy off to my editor. Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty I'm free at last!

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    Let me be the first to say congratulations!

    Going to enjoy some time off?
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    ahh yes, but they'll want the script for the movie now

    Congratulations on getting it done, Steve! Now if I could just finish this $%&^ ten page paper...

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