Random Thoughts of an Old Writer

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The autobiographical thoughts of award-winning author Robert Vaughan start with his childhood including a 71-year grudge against a bad call in a Little League Baseball game. Spanning across his time in the army first as an enlisted man to include his time as an aircraft maintenance instructor in the Army Aviation School at Rucker during which time he once wrestled a bear and his time in Korea from a poignant Christmas to finding an abandoned baby.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>His military experiences also cover his time as a warrant officer serving at Ft. Campbell in Germany where he engaged in a slapping contest with a German three combat tours in Vietnam including landing on a mine being temporarily blinded and scrounging a staff car from the Navy.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>After leaving the army Vaughan had a short but active television career from which he was fired for handcuffing the weather girl to a desk during a live broadcast. His TV career was followed by a stint of owning and publishing a newspaper then becoming a full time novelist with nearly 400 books published including seven </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>New York Times</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> best-sellers. During his writing career Vaughan was arrested by the FBI as a part of one of his books was read into the Watergate Hearings.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The book is told not in numbered chapters but in a series of titled vignettes.</em></p>