Veteran Home

In the open countryside, the only safe place is behind the barrel of your gun. “Tom Hawke has created a post-apocalyptic world that is harsh, dangerous, and believable, but what keeps me turning the pages isn't just the action—it's the people.” - Amazon Reviewer Braxton Stone's arrival in Idaho signals a reckoning for the Bastard Brigade, the ruthless motorcycle gang that has controlled the region since the grid went down. No longer can they terrorize the town with impunity — if they expose themselves for even a moment, Braxton is ready to strike. However the gang remains firmly ...

Vietnam, 1968. Daniel Cofield is nineteen years old, a helicopter crew chief with the 1st Cavalry Division. He will spend twelve months in the air above a war that will never leave him. Daniel arrives at Bien Hoa with sixty-two pounds of gear and no understanding of what waits for him. He is assigned to a Huey helicopter crew — Chalk One — under a pilot who communicates in three taps on the cyclic and says almost nothing else. His crew chief, Lou, teaches him the only rule that matters: The gun wants to fire. You just let it. Over twelve months, Daniel flies into landing zones where the...

This book discusses how military veterans can purchase a home and invest in real estate, starting with their VA Home Loan and then pivoting to other types of financing. This book also explores new perspectives on wealth-building and financial freedom that are uniquely available to military veterans, from mere ideological perspectives and character traits to actual VA-secured loan guarantees. Learn to re-define and exterminate bad debt and liabilities from your life and investment portfolio...and capitalize on the applications of good debt, assets, equity, and cash flow. This book also ...

Unlock the Secret to Homeownership with the Benefit You’ve Already Earned For over 80 years, the VA Home Loan program has helped millions of veterans, active-duty service members, and military families achieve the American dream of homeownership. Yet far too many eligible heroes never take full advantage of this powerful benefit—often because of myths, confusion, or lack of clear guidance. VA Home Loan Secrets is your step-by-step roadmap to buying your first or next home with confidence. Written in plain, practical language, this guide takes you inside the VA loan process from start to...

It’s been 366 days since I laid eyes on my wife. And 364 more before I’m scheduled to return home… Tragedy changed Malaysia’s plans. On the journey home, she was filled with sorrow and joy tugging at her heart. She hadn’t slept in a week because of the trauma, and was looking forward to the only person she knew could give her peace—her wife. She’d need her more than ever now and hoped their love could withstand the changes that were her new existence.

Six men. Twelve days. Triple-canopy jungle. No one who wasn't there will ever know what happened. March 1968. Daniel Croft — callsign Ghost — inserts into the Central Highlands of Vietnam as point man for a six-man LRRP team. His job is simple and impossible: move through enemy territory without being seen, gather intelligence no conventional unit can reach, and bring his men home. Ghost is the best point man in F Company, 51st Infantry. He reads the jungle the way he read elk country in the Pryor Mountains of Montana — not by thinking, but by being present in a way most men never ...

They trained you how to deploy, how to lead, how to survive. But no one trained you for the silence that follows. No one prepared you for the disconnect, the restlessness, or the sense that you left a part of yourself back there—and can’t quite find your footing here. In After the Uniform, psychotherapist and veteran specialist Dr. Erik Gray draws from years of clinical work with service members across all branches to offer a compassionate, practical guide for the real work of reintegration. This is not a book of slogans or empty advice. It’s a field manual for the internal terrain—...

Unlock the door to your dream home with confidence and clarity through Navigating VA Home Loans, the ultimate guide crafted to empower veterans and their families on the journey to homeownership. This comprehensive eBook delves into every facet of VA home loans, demystifying the process and offering invaluable insights tailored for those who have served. Begin your exploration with an introduction to the fundamentals of VA home loans, tracing their history and understanding their purpose. Navigate eligibility criteria with ease, ensuring you're well-prepared before stepping into the realm ...

Volume six of The Things Our Fathers Saw World War II oral history series. In The Bulge and Beyond, you will be with the soldiers going into the heart of the bloodiest single battle fought by the US Army in American history, the so-called "Battle of the Bulge". You will be with them as they feel the sense the fear of the unknown, the crush of impending doom, the scale of being amongst the columns of young, tired men slogging into a forest, medieval and dark, with the complete inability to ever get warm again.19,000 American GIs never saw their mothers again.

December 20, 1972. Sortie one hundred. The target is Hanoi. For three years, Captain David Morrow has flown his B-52 above the war — 38,000 feet of altitude that has kept the work clean, the bombs anonymous, the cost theoretical. He has a wife in Wichita who writes asking what it's like up there. He has a tail gunner he has shared ninety-six missions with whose face he cannot quite recall. He has a father in Pratt, Kansas who has been watching the western sky since 1945 and has never said why. When the surface-to-air missile finds him over Hanoi on the opening night of Linebacker II — ...

Vietnam, 1968. Carl Hayes is nineteen years old, from Macon, Georgia, and has thirteen months to survive. Assigned to an infantry squad in the Mekong Delta, Carl carries sixty-one pounds on his back and everything else where it doesn't show. A pebble from a dead friend's hand. Unsent letters in a plastic bag. A photograph of a woman he's not sure will wait. The quiet teachings of a sergeant who speaks in silences and keeps men alive by reading the ground the way other men read books. Over thirteen months with the 25th Infantry Division, Carl will learn what the jungle sounds like when it ...

"The book that America needs right now." --Tom Brokaw, journalist and author of The Greatest Generation "Jake Wood offers one of the most soaring definitions of service I've ever seen." --Maria Shriver, award-winning journalist and author of I've Been Thinking From Marine sniper Jake Wood, a...

When the power goes out, most people assume it will come back on soon. But sometimes it doesn't. Storms knock out entire regions for days. Wildfires force sudden evacuations. Floodwaters erase roads overnight. Highways gridlock as thousands try to escape at once. These aren't rare events. They happen every year.

From award-winning and bestselling author David Nasaw, a brilliant re-examination of post-World War II America that looks beyond the victory parades and into the veterans’—and nation’s—unhealed traumas In its duration, geographical reach, and ferocity, World War II was unprecedented, and...

He plans every minute. She’s about to turn his whole life upside down. Veteran defenseman Owen Mercer can handle pressure on the ice. At home, the single father survives with careful routines, detailed schedules and the certainty that planning hard enough can keep his six-year-old daughter safe. Then his childcare collapses just as his ex-wife leaves for a six-month medical assignment overseas. Kindergarten teacher Harper Grant needs somewhere to live after a burst pipe destroys her apartment. Owen needs someone his daughter already knows and trusts. A temporary live-in arrangement should...

THE MAN WHO BUILT THE HUNT IS DYING. ALASKA THINKS COLE ROURKE IS THE MONSTER. Cole Rourke survived being hunted through the Alaskan wilderness. He went after the next lodge beneath a Russian volcano. Now he has to go home. The Ashfall archive has put a name to the founder of the human-hunting network: Elias Ames, an eighty-one-year-old Alaskan legend whose family controls fuel docks, aircraft, marine services and livelihoods across the waters where Cole grew up. Ames isn’t hiding. His town loves him. And his daughter has spent eleven weeks arranging every true fact about Blackthroat into...

November 1965. The Central Highlands. Ray Halvorsen, nineteen years old, lies in a shallow hole at Landing Zone X-Ray while mortar rounds walk across the elephant grass and the man beside him prays in a voice Ray cannot hear. Before the sun comes up, Ray will fire his rifle at a shape in the grass and watch it stop moving. Before the week is over, he will walk the column to Landing Zone Albany and learn why half the men around him will never walk out of it. Sixteen months earlier, a letter from the Webster County Local Board arrived on a Tuesday in late July at a farm outside Corwin, Iowa. ...

She never stopped loving him. He never expected to come home. But sometimes a second chance is right where you left it. After the sudden loss of her father, Naomi Whitaker is doing everything she can to hold her life—and the town of Whispering Pines—together. The last thing she needs is more uncertainty, especially when troubling questions begin to surface about the final, heartfelt journals and secrets her father left behind. Then Jonah Hale returns. Years ago, he left Whispering Pines carrying a heavy weight of grief he could never outrun. Coming back was supposed to be temporary—...

In this military memoir, you will observe our main character, Major Darby Hillcrest, mobilize, train, and certify his armor battalion of citizen soldiers for combat duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Never has there been such a detailed account of the day-to-day experiences of a National Guard combat deployment. This book will forever change the way you look at our nation’s military. From the author of COMBAT ESSAYS and CHILDREN’S GOLF.

For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative.