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My personal journey to seek out wisdom and improvement in my life and the lives of others has resulted in this collection of quotes. May they inspire you or someone you know to be a better person and always take the high road when faced with challenging decisions. The journey is still in progress for me and will last a lifetime.

The Redondo Beach Police Department dates to May 9, 1892, when Marshall S. Rogers was appointed as the city�s first marshal. One of the first city ordinances prohibited the discharge of firearms within city limits and provided the option for hiring of a deputy �if needed.� He was needed, of course,...

The Instant New York Times Bestseller. A war is being waged against us by radical Islamists, and, as current events demonstrate, they are only getting stronger. Al-Qaeda has morphed into a much more dangerous, menacing threat: ISIS. Lt. General Michael T. Flynn is blunt and urgent. This book...

James S. Oliver grew up on the southern Philippine Island of Mindanaohiding from World War II aggressors with his Filipino mother and three siblings. He did not know it then, but war would become a constant in his life, even after he moved to the United States. Hed graduate from college and become...

Jay E. Riedel was born 19 November 1939 in Freeport, Long Island, New York, and received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mathematics from the University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, and his commission as a Second Lieutenant through AFROTC in July 1961. Colonel Jay E. Riedel retired 1 April 1992 after...

Selbourne Reid, the author of this book is a retired Detective Inspector of Police. He was a member of the Rifle Squad which travelled in front with Inspector Fisher who led the charge in the operation against the Rastafarians. He saw a man chopped and killed within three to five (3ft-5ft) feet of...

"In 1945 my father, John Bradley, and other members of Combat Team 28 raised a flag on Iwo Jima. Now with The Lions of Iwo Jima, [Haynes] helps America understand how it was done."—James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys Combat Team 28, one of the greatest units...

Intrigued by the mystique and challenge of the Marine Corps, eighteen-year-old Wesley Fox enlisted in the summer of 1950, shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War. He saw action with the First Marine Division in Korea and was wounded in 1951. After Korea, Fox advanced steadily in the enlisted ranks,...

Most books on the Cuban Missile Crisis tell the story using the memoirs of those who advised President Kennedy as he struggled to avoid World War III. This book is the only known personal account of the lead photographic reconnaissance squadron's scouting dangerous low-level operations, flying the...

Does class rank really matter? Q: What do you call the person whos last in their class in medical or law school? A: Doctor or Lawyer. Q: And, what do you call the person whos last in their class at West Point, Annapolis or the U.S. Air Force Academy? A: Lieutenant or Ensign. Same Date of Rank salutes...

For over thirty years, Soldier of Fortune magazine has been the go to magazine for supporting those individuals who have the courage to fight. Whether they fight for those who cannot defend themselves or they fight simply to uphold their beliefs...whomoever is in service to others and is willing to stand...

The F-117 Stealth Nighthawk was a truly groundbreaking aircraft when introduced in the early 1980s. The strange shape of the jet, all flat panels and angles, rendered the aircraft nearly invisible to radar. This highly classified program wasn’t acknowledged publicly by the U.S. Air Force until 1988....

On D-Day 15 September 1944, five infantry battalions of the 1st Marine Division’s 1st, 5th, and 7th Marines, in amphibian tractors (LVTs) lumbered across 600–800 yards of coral reef fringing smoking, reportedly smashed Peleliu in the Palau Island group and toward five selected landing beaches. That westward anchor of the 1,000-mile-long Caroline archipelago was viewed by some U.S. planners as obstacles, or threats, to continued advances against Japan’s Pacific empire....

This is an important book, because it gives us the unvarnished account of one brigade commander and his tour of duty in Baghdad during the tumultuous first year of the American occupation, wrote Tom Ricks in the Foreword. From it the reader will learn much about what went wrong in Iraq, and also what...