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Weedygarden said:
Reading "True Faith and Allegiance, An American Paratrooper and the 1972 Battle for An Loc" by Mike McDermott. It is mostly about Mike's time in Vietnam, but also talks a little about his life outside of Vietnam. Mike is a retired infantry colonel and one of the most highly decorated soldiers of the Vietnam War--two Distinguished Service Crosses, the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars for Valor, the Purple Heart, and some thirty other awards and decorations. He served four years in combat with U.S. and Vietnamese paratrooper units.

I am normally not someone who would read about war, but Mike is from South Dakota, and given that this book is about someone I knew, and that it was recently recommended on a history site from my home county, I decided to get a copy of the book.
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Sounds interesting Weedy. I like fact not much fiction. With my neck pain and dr.caused stroke that caused partial blindness :mad: don't read books anymore.Online I can see better useing TV hdmi cable.
 
randyt said:
I've been reading a couple books. One is called Fry the Brain, it is about sniping. The other is To Ride, Shoot and Speak the Truth by Jeff Cooper. It's about, well it was written by Jeff Cooper.
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If you are a shooter anything by Jeff Cooper has to be good. Where did you find it?
 
I'm reading "Dust" now. It's the third book in the "Silo Trilogy" by Hugh Howey. The first two books were "Wool" and "Shift". The genre is "Future Dystopia" with a bit of "Post-Apocalypse". If you haven't read it, grab "Wool" now and get started! Note: "Wool" was initially a series of shorter installments, and they were bundled together into the "Wool Omnibus" - be sure and get the omnibus. I have rated very few books I've read as 5 stars. "Wool" is one of them.
 
I have American Rifleman magazines going back to the 1920s. On a rainy day I'll grab a few and read them. Been doing that with old poplar mechanics, mother earth news, fur fish game, hunter trapper trader, lots of interesting reading. I've been wanting to read Uncle Tom's Cabin. Have a copy but haven't got around to it yet.

I was thinking about authors earlier, folks like Skeeter Skelton, Jeff Cooper, Julius Hatcher, Townsend Whelen, Ragnar Benson, Bill Jordan, Peter Capstick Hathaway, Elmer Kreps, Paul Provencher, Maurice Decker, gosh there are so many.
 
The Country Kitchen by Della Lutes. Copyright 1936 about the meals of her youth in the 1870’s 1880’s ish. It is hilarious. If you want info on old time cooking methods and meals it’s great. But even if you don’t cook at all I’d say so far it’s still worth the read. I’m just in chapter 3 or 4? She has a great vocabulary and way of setting the scene. When you laugh while reading, you know it’s funny. I’m enjoying it. (I haven’t been up for reading anything too heavy this year for some reason 🥴).
 
I've started re-reading "The Art of War".:thumbs::archery:😏
 
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