TIMEFLASH

The theme of TIMEFLASH is how fast the momentous events transpire in one man's lifetime.
From an amazing recall of his own life the author has captured much that has happened around him, what he has been told, and what he has researched, and woven it into this fast moving incredible true story of six generations, and their reflection of the world as they knew it.
From sitting on Lincoln's knee watching Union troops march to Appomattox for Lee's surrender to managing the Presidential campaign of Bob Lafollette the father of the American Progressive movement; riding with Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan Hill to chasing Pancho Villa to Vera Cruz with "Black Jack" Pershing; flying bomb missions over Germany to the Bataan Death March; beating back ground attacks by the North Vietnamese Army to lying on the warm sands of Hawaii; winning the Cold War strategically through diplomacy backed by nuclear deterrence to leveling the social playing field in America; sailing the shark infested Monterrey Bay in heavy seas, and almost perishing to winning in American politics; Trump shocking the political world by convincingly beating Hillary for President in 1916; Democrat voters migrating from blue states to red states.
There is special fascination in this book especially since there is much here that has not been previously publicized: What was America's response to Pancho Villa's slaughter of fifty-two Americans in the New Mexico territory in 1916? Did FDR know ahead about the attack on Pearl Harbor? How did we treat our mentally disabled people before 1970? How did we train a joint multi-national staff for the invasion of Europe in World War II? How cruel were the Japanese to prisoners of war? What toll in American lives did German U-boats take before the US ever declared war? What role did Ernest Hemingway play against the German U-boat threat against America before WW II began? Was corporal punishment in our schools through the 1950's all that bad? Did Rock&Roll really originate in Washington DC? Was James Deane responsible for his death in the 1955 car wreck? Did General Patton's daughter successfully inter her mother's ashes with her father's remains in the American Cemetery in Luxembourg? What is the anatomy of a nuclear missile operation, and how are these powerful weapons positively controlled? Why did Truman fire MacArthur from overall command of UN Forces in the Korean War? Was Sammy Baugh the greatest pro quarterback ever? Did Mickey Mantle hit a home run of 656 feet that was never recorded? Was there a day when Washington DC as a city functioned efficiently? Why did Paul Tibbetts the pilot of the bomber that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima want his ashes spread in the English Channel? Why did Mercedes Benz stop racing after the terrible wreck at the Lemans Race in 1955? What impact did Ronald Reagan's speech in 1964 in support of Barry Goldwater have on the then future of American politics? Was LBJ's demise due to his pushing two conflicting efforts, the Vietnam War and the Great Society simultaneously? If we never lost a battle in Vietnam why did we lose the war? What impact did the terrorist group Baader-Meinhof Gang have on US Forces in Europe? Why did Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) play such a major role in bringing down the Soviet Union? Should we put any credibility in metaphysical occurences? Why did McCain and Romney clearly blow their chances to beat Obama in their runs for the Presidency? Did the Y2K problem ever amount to anything? How much harm did political correctness under the Obama administration cause US security against terrorism? Where was President Obama during the hours that our people were under attack, and four died at Benghazi? Why was no support given to our people during the Benghazi attack?
This epic tale moves swiftly in a TIMEFLASH.