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Author Jack London featured by PR by the Book

Posted on October 11, 2018 by Alter Endeavors Admin

Recently, author Jack London was featured by PR by the Book for the new book, Children of the Good War. The article includes information on Jack’s upcoming trip to the Meuse Argonne American Military Cemetery on Veteran’s Day, as well … Continue reading →

 
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Posted on September 2, 2017 by JackWLondon

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Autumn 2017

Posted on July 29, 2017 by JackWLondon

My Autumn is filling up.  Here is where I’m scheduled to speak and to give classes and presentations during Autumn, 2017: September 7, 2017:  Writing Your Story, a one day program for veterans who want to learn to write a book, at the … Continue reading →

 
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Spring Bookstand Cleaning

Posted on April 21, 2017 by JackWLondon

It’s Spring again. My roses are growing up into the oak branches and the irises have blossomed for the season.  Our lawn is (temporarily) green and … the sounds of hammers and saws and boomboxes pound in my ears, the … Continue reading →

 
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Over there: Dulce et Decorum Est

Posted on July 3, 2015 by JackWLondon

Among the rows and rows of graves and amidst the linden trees of the Meuse-Argonne American Military Cemetery the cool breezes of eastern France gently suggest the lines from Horace that ‘It is sweet and right to die for one’s … Continue reading →

 
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On the Nightstand: Of Winter Days and Longer Nights

Posted on January 8, 2015 by JackWLondon

  The New Year has arrived with all its baggage.  Chill winds.  Clouds low on the horizon. Garden flowers pleading to be pruned.   Junebug demanding to be let out, then back in, then back out.  But winter is not all grim … Continue reading →

 
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On the Nightstand: The Autumn Equinox….

Posted on September 20, 2014 by JackWLondon

It is the autumnal equinox, midway between high summer and dark winter, the longest and shortest days or our calendar. Entonces? Well, it means that during a long summer I have moved a bunch of books on and off my … Continue reading →

 
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Thank you very much indeed….

Posted on October 7, 2013 by JackWLondon

This was posted on the French Letters site after the Military Writers Conference in Dayton “Having just returned from the MWSA writers conference I have to say that my favorite session was led by Jack W. London.  It was about … Continue reading →

 
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Approach every problem with an open mouth….

Posted on June 2, 2013 by JackWLondon

June 6: I’ll be with Rich Simpson on Our Echo Network Radio on D-Day.  Sandy Lawrence lined this up when it became known that Rich’s mother lives in Air Force Village on the edge of San Antonio. My dear friend, General … Continue reading →

 
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Begorrah, and is it not brothers and sisters we are?

Posted on March 17, 2012 by JackWLondon

Today is St. Patrick’s Day, the celebration of all things Irish. The Irish are generally a special people. Handsome, or attractive, witty, musical, loyal, proud, and principalled. But it has not always been so easy. Well-known is the exodus of … Continue reading →

 
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Downton Abbey — Head on Chopping Block….

Posted on February 19, 2012 by JackWLondon

Tonight is the end of the second season (in the US) of that corsets and castles gripper, Downton Abbey. Season One (spoiler alert) is fun: when the heir to the entailed title and estate joins Leonardo de Caprio on the … Continue reading →

 
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July 12 St. Lo, France 1944

Posted on July 12, 2011 by JackWLondon

American infantry, led by the 115th and 116th regimental combat teams of the 29th Infanty Division, pushed to within one mile of St. Lo, France, a crossroads city that would become known as The Capitol of the Ruins for the … Continue reading →

 
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Service for our country: A Meigs has been in our service since West Point was founded

Posted on September 17, 2010 by JackWLondon

I just had the good fortune to have been invited by Stewart Vanderwilt to a lunch presentation by General Montgomery Meigs. He is a retired Army general, twice commander of US troops in Bosnia during that war and most recently head … Continue reading →

 
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FRENCH LETTERS: THE STORY CONTINUES….

Posted on September 14, 2010 by JackWLondon

French Letters:  Engaged in War, officially launches today, September 14, 2010.   It is the parallel-quel to Virginia’s War, the 2009 finalist for BEST NOVEL OF THE SOUTH, BEST HISTORICAL FICTION, AND BEST ROMANTIC NOVELS WITH A TWIST.  Engaged in War is the … Continue reading →

 
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THE LETTER PROJECT

Posted on September 7, 2010 by JackWLondon

“Maybe Africa should never have been called the Dark Continent; I find it nice here and wish you could see the wild flowers.” An artillery soldier in April 1943, during the drive to capture Tunisia. “To hear their piteous crys for … Continue reading →

 
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