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It will come as no surprise that I did not wake up one morning and start hiking the Appalachian Trail. The decision was a bit more deliberative and this book captures most of the details of how I made the decision and then how I planned the adventure. The bulk of the book is the collection of blogs I wrote each afternoon or evening – almost without fail. The blog format was the result of a friend’s interest in following my trek. Had he not expressed that interest, this book, if written, would have been at best a collection of notes occasionally entered on an iPhone – or worse, on a pad of paper. Without writing the blog, the thru-hike would have had a different measure of personal satisf ...

PFC Ottis Earl Sudduth WWII Replacement Soldier In the spring of 2022, Ottis Earl Sudduth’s niece, Penny, contacted the author concerning information posted to a genealogy website that he managed. In one of the several emails they exchanged, an apparent discrepancy was noted in the number of months that her uncle PFC Ottis Earl Sudduth spent as a POW during WWII. In the process of resolving the discrepancy (5-months vs. 9-months) they discovered more detail about her Uncle Earl than either anticipated possible so long after his death in 1984. As the author crafted biographical notes to add to his website, it became clear that there was enough information for a story – however brief. ...

In December 1941, James Elvie Pate was a 32-year-old, single ranch hand on the Tommy Brook Ranch in west Texas and a base violin player in a local band. By April 1942 he had joined the U.S. Army and was assigned to the 90th Infantry Division – the Tough ‘Ombres. Two years later he was a married sergeant aboard a ship passing by the Statue of Liberty - bound for England and eventual participation in the landings on Utah Beach. Four days following that landing and within several miles of the beach he was wounded and sent back to England for treatment. Upon return to France he fought in the operation known as the Falaise Pocket. Just days before that battle was won, Sergeant Pate paid the u ...