THE VA - A Veteran/Patient/Volunteer Memoir is a story that chronicles the very positive experiences of a veteran and his interactions with the VA as a disabled veteran, a patient in their healthcare system and as a volunteer. The VA gets a lot of negative press when things go wrong. But seldom do they get positive recognition for all of the things that go very, very right. The VA is far from perfect but overall it is extremely good. Our veter...
Imagine you controlled something that everyone else in the world needed. How would you behave?What if alternatives existed for your only product? Would you support their development and use, or would you seek to block them?What if your only product was no longer needed by anyone? How would you make sure that never happened?What steps would you be willing to take to make sure you weren't cut off from something you couldn't live without?The answ...
From growing up in a Canadian Mountie household to writing Hollywood screenplays, debut short story writer Rick Butler has mined his real-life experiences for THE MOUNTIE IN THE HOUSE AND OTHER STORIES.
"These are lively, insightful and highly entertaining stories from a very fine writer with talent to burn, " says Leo Furey, author of The Long Run. "Prime reading for lovers of vivid, fast-paced fiction."
Among the 14 quirky, o...
From growing up in a Canadian Mountie household to writing Hollywood screenplays, debut short story writer Rick Butler has mined his real-life experiences for THE MOUNTIE IN THE HOUSE AND OTHER STORIES.
"These are lively, insightful and highly entertaining stories from a very fine writer with talent to burn, " says Leo Furey, author of The Long Run. "Prime reading for lovers of vivid, fast-paced fiction."
Among the 14 quirky, o...
This memoir focuses on Rick's senior high school basketball team - the 1967 Griffith Panthers. This team made basketball school history winning their 1st ever state tournament sectional and ending with a record of 20 wins and 4 losses. The memoir chronicles Rick's basketball experience starting in grade school and ending with coaching his granddaughter, Maya's community basketball team. All of this represented Rick's glorious ride through Hoos...
POINT-A Paratrooper's Memoirs of Vietnam tells the combat related stories/memoirs of Rick Butler, a paratrooper in Vietnam in 1968. The book is fiction but is based on Rick's combat experience. It starts with his stateside Army training and continues with the 18-year-old's deployment to Vietnam. His combat experience is chronicled with numerous stories representing his transition from a green, inexperienced 18-year-old who is trying to stay al...
