Taking a detour from my mystery
writing, my first non-fiction book For Liberty: A World War II Soldier’s
Inspiring Life Story of Courage, Sacrifice, Survival and Resilience has been
published by Green Leaf Publishers.
On D-Day, June 6, the subject of the
book, 96-year-old Ed Gitlin, and I will be speaking at two venues in Colorado. At 9 AM they will be at the Broomfield Veterans Memorial Museum,
12 Garden Center, Broomfield, CO, and at 12:30 PM they will be at the Spirit of
Flight Center, 2650 S. Main St. Erie, CO.
What will be fun is the
format of these two programs. Ed is very articulate and has a great sense of
humor. I always kid him that he has a better memory than I do. We’re going to
use an interview format for the presentations. I’ll tee up an event in his
past, and then he’ll tell the story of his experience.
To give you an example
of his impish sense of humor, Ed once attended a party with his wife, a climate
scientist. A pompous academician looked down his nose at Ed and said, “What do you do?”
Ed the owner of a machine shop business said, “Oh, I sweep the floors
and clean machines in a machine shop.” The man was taken aback. Ed then put his
arm around his wife and said, “And this wonderful woman taught me how to read
and write.” As Ed recounted, “Boy did I hear about that from my wife afterwards.”
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