Not long after I was discharged from the Navy, I took advantage of the GI bill and went back to school. Although my major was Landscape Technology, I was required to take an English class and I chose a course in writing. I figured it would help in drawing up proposals or producing reports that may be needed in my field, (no pun intended). One of the first things she taught me was to “Write what you know”.
Later in life, I suffered a stroke and was incouraged to take up writing to rehabilitate whatever synop’s I’d lost in the process. Later yet, when the opportunity arose, I made claim to a website where I could write to my hearts content. Remembering back to my schooling, I began to write of my navy years, and I still do, to this day. In the process of all this, I came into contact with a fellow radioman I’d served with, and he too, became a writer.
His first work, which is classified as ficton, takes place on the ship we both served on back in 1968. “Apollo Rises” is it’s name and is about the counter intelligence work that took place (allegedly) on the USS COLUMBUS. I wrote to him after I’d read it and congratulated him on his efforts and admired how he could use his imagination to create such a story. I told him my writing was more of a rememberance of what I went through and could never make up characters, or come up with some kind of plot to incompass it all.
When I heard that he’d writtin another book, I immediatly ordered one and took right to it. “Nea Makri” is another book on the same subject, using the same characters as the first. As I was reading it, I remembered reading some highly classified material pretaining to his story line, and then it dawned on me.
He must have taken the same class I did.
If anyone is interested in how things work in his line of work, I highly recommend reading it, and forgot what it says on the first page: “This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.” You can contact him, but he’s going to tell you I’m full of shit.
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