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The Last Post Prophesized the January 6th Storming of the Capitol

 

It is a historical novel that is told from the perspective of three men and a woman who fought in four different wars - the Second World War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the First Gulf War.  Through these characters we experience the reality and the impact of the Flying Fortress bombing raids against Germany and Berlin - the retreat from the Chosen Reservoir in North Korea by twenty-five thousand Marines who battled their way home in sub-zero weather, surrounded by a two-hundred-thousand man Chinese fighting force - the Vietnam War and the covert battles fought "over the fence" in Laos by the Special Forces SOAG units attacking the Ho Chi Minh Trail - and the Gulf War and the journey down the Highway of Death. In the end, we experience the war of all wars, the moment when evil takes on a life of its own, and we turn against each other in a prophetic vision of a new civil war in America.

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Charlie, Bob, the Reverend, and Leah, the main characters in the story, are a microcosm of the macrocosm of America.  They span four generations and four eras of American history, and they tell the story of the vast majority of the American people, their hopes and dreams, their fears and disappointments, the illusions that keep them going, and the simple values, expectations, and everyday joys and pleasures that give their life meaning and value amidst the madness that we all suffer from - a madness that comes from our unwillingness to face some obvious truths and the fact that tragedy is lurking everywhere in America today. Or, as Bob Sumner, one of the main characters in the  novel, says, "If what's happening down below is not happening above, and the head is not talking to its asshole, the shit will fly."

 

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Sample from The Last Post

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