Veteran Home

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

June 1966. Hollis Caudill, nineteen years old, stands in the open door of a Huey and learns what the valley costs. He is a door gunner with the 227th Assault Helicopter Battalion, flying resupply and extraction missions into the Vinh Thanh Valley during Operation Crazy Horse — one of the bloodiest helicopter operations of the Vietnam War. He has an M60, a crew chief who speaks in facts rather than comfort, and a 1964 Ford Galaxie waiting under a tarp at home in West Virginia. By the time the operation ends, he will have carried the dead from a burning ridge, watched a ship go down in 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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Welcome Home is a story about the final years of the Vietnam War and its impact on American servicemen and the South Vietnamese who lived through it. It’s a story of spies, combat, intrigue and recovery. Josh Harding is a gunner’s mate on a strike assault boat in a little-known Brownwater Navy operation in the Mekong Delta. His experiences during this pivotal time reveal many obscure events that set the stage for South Vietnam’s defeat. Little did he know at the time that some of the most profound experiences would arrive after he returned home, including an orphan who showed up on ...

On the final day of the Vietnam War, Staff Sergeant Daniel Rourke steps off a transport plane onto American soil carrying more than a duffel bag. He carries ghosts. He carries memories. And he carries a truth he has never spoken aloud. But home is not the place he remembers. Families are fractured. Friendships have shifted. The town he left behind has learned to live without him, and the man returning is not the man who left. As Daniel struggles to reconnect with the life he fought to protect, he discovers that the hardest battles are not fought overseas — they’re fought in the quiet ...

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...

"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...

Sometimes the greatest among us… Carry a weight that none of us can see. Marine hero Emmett Marshall never imagined he’d spend Christmas broke, homeless, and hiding behind a fake white beard at the local mall. But when life knocks him down harder than a reindeer on ice, taking a job as Santa is the only way to survive the holidays. Holiday hopes take a nosedive when a body is found just steps from Santa’s workshop and Emmett becomes the prime suspect. Single mom Alisa Kramer only meant to offer the struggling veteran a little Christmas kindness. Instead, she finds herself entangled in...

This true story of two decorated combat veterans who find a new way to save their comrades and heal their country is “a great look at two of the best veteran organizations going and the incredible humans who make the effort work” (Jon Stewart). In Charlie Mike, a true account that “reads...

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. ...

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...

Four sweet and clean Christian romances to warm your heart this holiday season! Snuggle up with these faith-filled stories of hope and love, celebrating the true meaning of Christmas. Visit London for a series of Christmas dates, experience New Year’s Eve in Edinburgh, fall in love after a marriage of convenience in a beach town, and discover home and healing in small-town Oregon, all within the pages of these complete and standalone romances. If you love Hallmark movies, Love Inspired Books, and deeply emotional stories of overcoming heartache to find happily-ever-afters, chances are the...

Beware the blackbirds… It’s Halloween in Vermont, winter is coming, and five humans, two dogs, and a cat are a crowd in Mercy Carr’s small cabin. She needs more room—and she knows just the place: Grackle Tree Farm, with thirty acres of woods and wetlands and a Victorian manor to die for...