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From a heartland farm through the Orient aflame to the Old World in a Cold War, at the tip of a supersonic spear—a single-seat jet fighter; then from the metropolitan madness of post-modern America and Europe through Florida’s slothful Suncoast and the Delectable Mountains of the Blue Ridge to a laid-back life on the road, I’m a blessed soul. This is the story of Grace in my Growing Season.
No Time To Waste is a chilling combat memoir, a gripping gospel story—to hell and back and glory beyond by God’s grace alone. It's a true tale of amazing grace at Pearl Harbor and Guadalcanal aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco; under the South Pacific aboard the submarine USS Queenfish on all five victorious war patrols; over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in an F-100; and in the hearts of two veterans—cultural curmudgeons—long after their combat days were over.
“No one…” is the unequivocal subject of six quotations by Christ in the book of John. They comprise the most important message that can enter the mind of man—how God saves sinners. His words are simple enough for a youth to grasp, profound enough to stagger the mind of an intellectual.
NEW REVISED EDITION IN EBOOK. Duty. Honor. My country, right or wrong, drives the young fighter pilots of Dusty Squadron, from flack in the face above the A Shau Valley to the canned hellfire of napalm in the jungle to midnight gunfights over the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Top Gun F-100 pilot John Ellsworth, the impetuous Son of Thunder, is the most zealous of the lot, and he pays dearly. A story of redemption in a disastrous war that changed the American culture, and the awful price of heroism. A novel.
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