Kirjahaku

Storms in life are inevitable. Eventually everyone faces one. Sometimes difficult circumstances continue with no end in sight while prayers for miracles seem to go unanswered. For the past three decades, pastor Ben Young has worked with families and individuals struggling to cope with the harsh realities of major life crisis. He also knows personally what it's like to endure an ongoing storm. Through his own trials, he has learned not only to survive each dark day, but to live every day in ways that make a person stronger, wiser, and more at peace.

A collection of original articles first posted on my blog of the same title...Military and war history are discussed, as well as book reviews...Politics is a recurring theme...A sense of humor along with a grain of salt will make easier reading...This is the Fourth, and final revised edition...

This is a journal of news headline interpretations, featuring Lefty, a fictitious character in whose flaws, and those of the inhabitants of his world, we may see our own weaknesses, and perhaps even grow stronger in their recognition...

An investigation into the whereabouts and purpose of a US Navy Small Coastal Transport during the Pacific War, and a discussion of supply and logistics during a time of conflict...This third edition contains revised text for clarity... Other than within these pages, and those of several books covering this specialized subject matter, plus some dedicated online sources containing not much more than the official data releases from the Department of the Navy, little information is available concerning the hazards faced by the men who went to sea in these tiny ships to supply those others entrenched on foreign beaches risking their all to preserve freedom at home...

Imagine your nation has suddenly been thrown into an unwanted war, and you are told that, as a reservist, you will join the brigade of your fellow citizen-soldiers/sailors who are already in place aboard giant steel behemoths, bristling with enormous guns, sailing in company with many other armed warships...Others are in speedy, but thin-skinned aircraft with little chance of returning alive from each harrowing mission...Still others climb inside armored, tracked monsters which clank inexorably toward a final clash with those who brought war and destruction to your friends and family...But docked among the enormous steel warships, all stretching nearly a thousand feet long, and taller than many of the buildings in your hometown, is a wooden ship, barely a hundred feet long, and covered with a material that not only wouldn't stop a .22 caliber bullet from the rifle with which you've hunted squirrels, it will even ignite when flame is applied...This is your home until peace is declared...

Combining the full text and illustrations of the revised editions of... ""APc-48..."" and ""APc-48 Journeys..."" into one volume, celebrating the return of calmer seas, and honoring the service of all who stepped forward in the defense of freedom... With a foreword by Neal Ash, and additional text not found in the original volumes...