STEPHEN CHICOINE
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“One writer, more than half a century after his journey from darkness into light, accepted an invitation to give a speech at West Point on “The Meaning of Freedom”. A parade in his honor of 4.500 cadets moved him to tears. That evening, when they gathered to listen to him, he told them why: “I have always wanted to say thank you to the soldiers who wore your uniform, to thank them for saving my life.” And he told them about Buchenwald on April 11, 1945. And these officers of the future, already hardened, struggled not to break down in tears.”

Elie Wiesel
from After the Darkness: Reflections on the Holocaust

  
 

 

Some of my favorite books

Hoot by Carl Hiassen
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Every book by Christopher Paul Curtis
Some of the works of Walter Dean Myers
The historical fiction of Joseph Altsheler (1862-1919)

Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Roaring Lambs by Bob Briner

Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic by Bette Bao Lord
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Peter The Great by Robert Massie
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
The Soong Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
On Writing by Stephen King

 

  
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