Blood Tears and Purple Hearts

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Blood Tears & Purple Hearts is the harrowing and poignant story of two female Naval Aviators caught up in unexpected combat in the Syrian desert during the recent conflict there with ISIS.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ISIS insurgents have shot down their helicopter in the fight. Both women are seriously injured in the crash. They must overcome physical injuries disabilities and symptoms of PTSD and try to put the pieces of their lives and careers back together.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The author B.J. Ricketts served in the U.S. Navy for seven years during the Cold War aboard an Amphibious Assault ship similar to the one described in this book doing two Western Pacific deployments.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>During the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 his ship was assigned to transport Marines for the U.S. Embassy hostage rescue attempt in Iran. Additionally after 9/11 he served with the U.S. Coast Guard as an Auxiliary flight crew member conducting air security patrols around petroleum refineries and facilities in the upper Gulf Coast area around Southeast Texas.</span></p>