Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland
January 1944
He couldn’t wait to get back out there.
Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze, by Brent E Jones
Helena, Montana
Winter 1943
Montana is famous for many things – deep coulees, high mountains, gold, a spirit of defiance – but in the early part of the twentieth century visitors to the state often remarked upon the intensity of its quiet – particularly at night.
A Perfect Hell: The True Story of the Black Devils, the Forefathers of the Special Forces, by John Nadler
“The council convened in the presidential suite of the best hotel in Jackson City, a gathering of representatives of law enforcement bodies all over Wyoming Territory.”
“It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time.”
–Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Kearny, New Jersey, 1958
In the tidal flats of the Hackensack River rested a warship waiting to die.
Enterprise, America’s Fightingest Ship and the Men Who Helped Win World War II, by Barrett Tillman
Once, on a fine summer evening a long time before everything happened, when they were having something that was not quite a fight and not quite not a fight, Sparrow said to her, “That’s the real problem, Cod. By the time we met you’d already fallen in love with a myth.”