Just sent the following note to a friend this morning. Had to share it with you because I made myself laugh out loud.
Yes, I am ACTUALLY writing today. Yes, writing my book. Of course I have been researching and compiling and making detailed notes, but I am writing paragraphs and saving them to my hard drive. This is it. This is the book.
Damn, I have to admit that it's scary. Real scary. It's as though I have just made a committment, signed a contract, made some sort of huge move. Hard to describe. It's like, this is it kiddo. Sink or swim. Do or die. Hmmm. Makes one think.
So.... here I sit and sigh. I'm really doing this I say to myself. It's no longer an idea, an infatuation, or synapse sparking in my brain. I'm going for it. Egad! I've never done anything like this. Can I do it? Ya, I can, but I feel like I'm jumping into another world or league of folks who are waiting to pounce on me! LOL!!!! I picture it like this; a floating panel of judges with long white beards and long flowing white robes looking down on me and saying in a booming chorus of voices, "So you think you can play with us? ha-ha-ha-ha!"
I have to do this to make myself laugh. Yes, I am smiling. This is fun, but scary. Yes back to that word. It's one thing to write about your own life, but to try and write about a group of men who experienced so much. Whew!
Well I'm not getting anything done by writing to you, but heck, it's an outlet and I guess that's worth something.
If any of you has access to the MILITARY CHANNEL, I (we) have a special request to ask.
My dear friend, Colonel Stanley Dziuban, of the 39th Combat Engineers, did some narration for a show called Battle of Sicily. Here are excerpts from the two letters he wrote to me this week.
"... Then when I got home a neighbor said he had a week earlier seen a tv documentary which I narrated in part: The Battle for Sicily. It had been produced a while back but I had never seen it aired, and still haven't although I have a copy of the tape. This and a mountain of WW II and other material is out there for sale but specific items can be very hard to locate. Best regards. Now to get ready for Christmas. Stan Dziuban"
"I entered "Battle for Sicily" and got info it would show on Military Channel 21st Dec 4:30. Don't know whether that's Pacific time or other. I don't have Military Channel on my cable service and am wonderng whether it will be on one of the several affiliated channels like History or Discovery or A&E or whether I need to find someone wih satellite service including Military. Maybe you can catch it. I will be trying also. Regards. Stan"
So if any of you has access to this channel, I would be grateful if you can make a copy and send it my way. DVD if you can, but VHS is alright too. This would be great resource material for my book!
Stanley has written several articles and you can find his page here:
Don has his own official website now. For those of you in the dark he's a member of the 101st Airborne Div. You can view it here. Please note that it is still under construction, so many of the features are not working yet!
I have a question, a friend of mine found a Stars and Stripes Newspaper in a Cupboard here in Luxembourg and I borrowed it from him to scan it in, what I did.
My question is can I publish it here on this board maybe someone would like to read it?
he's a member of the 101st Airborne Div. You can view it here. Please note that it is still under construction, so many of the features are not working yet!
