Wartime Storyteller Gifts

Man's Shadow is a Soldier.

"I said, please don't feel it's necessary to make conversation."

"Do you care for the soldier type?"

"Tell me, what did you do in real life?"

Get Ahead

FDR

Grant's Overland Campaign: Army of the Potomac- Union Soldiers Fleeing Fires in the Wilderness

The Process of Cooking 2000 Turkeys for Soldier's Thanksgiving Dinner

"The luck didn't last. A shell finally got me near Batogne. Honestly, I didn't know I was injured until I reached down and found a hole in my leg. It makes you realize things."

'I have a steel plate in my head from WW1. A metal rod in my leg from Korea and grenade fragments everywhere from Vietnam.'

Siegfried Sassoon

"We didn't have telly in wartime, we had to make our own violence."

"My dad was in the war, but he doesn't talk about it."

The real reason the Christmas Truce didn't last.

"Agamemnon and Clytemnestra have decided to separate amicably."

"No, I don't want to live forever, but I damn sure don't want to be dead forever, either."

'It wouldn't hurt to say a few words.'

"There's no way we can get him ow. He's completely under the covers."

COWMIKAZES

'Don't be silly - the sun won't burn itself our for another 5 billion years. Bedsides, the Earth will have been smashed to smithereens by asteroids long before that.'

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

The camouflage in vietnam was more comfortable

Parenting Skills Training

"It's by A.I. Milne."

"Papi, I heard something!"

'It's been five years since leaving Iraq and I'm still getting the sand out my ears.'

'My bed time story sounds a lot like your blog.'

Your Country Needs MOO!

Saguaro Cacti.

Noah's Nark.

Old woman who lives in a shoe with sick children.

'I still write all my novels longhand.'

''Open Sesame' would make a great password, wouldn't it?'

He's mumbling again! What do you think husbands dream about?

Lady of the Remote