Author: forgetnotthelessons

Seeking reviews: (free) Stayed on Freedom’s Call: Cooperation…

Seeking reviews for my (free) book on Community Cooperation:
on Open Archive: https://archive.org/details/StayedOnFreedomsCall

on GR: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21532511-stayed-on-freedom-s-call

(if anyone knows how to get rid of the Amazon link on GR pls tell me: my publisher put it there, so I cannot really rm it from A…)

and
here on WP: https://gettingupagain.home.blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/14918-stayed-on-freedoms-call.pdf

ShiraDest
in the year 12015 HE

Honor, Duty, and … Community: MEOW Community Cooperation Blog

Thanks, dancingpalmtrees.
Today’s ‘normal’ date is: Wed, November 26, 2014
Today’s U.N. Date is: Sunday, November 26, 12014 H.E. (Holocene/Human Era)

ShiraDestProjectDoBetter's avatarContext, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest publications Offers Project Do Better

Much of my life has revolved around the ideals of service, duty, and honor embodied in the General´s West Point address, which I first read and found so inspiring as a cadet in both the Civil Air Patrol and Jr. ROTC.  The text is available here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1068922/posts

That speech and the ideals it represents may be what got me kicked out of Annapolis, in fact. When I arrived at the Naval Academy, I expected the ideas I had been taught as a cadet to continue to the Brigade of Midshipmen and to the officer corps: Nobless Oblige, defend and support the weak, work together to serve the ideals that make our democracy great. But I found a very different reality there, and in questioning, earned the ire of both my upper classmen and several of my classmates to boot.

Contemplating the meaning of friendship, and the twilight of one´s life…

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Biblical Science Fiction Series: Creator: Friend or Foe

The novel (50k words) of Nov. 2012 evolved, after 4 revisions, into a series, which I have ended after a 6th draft (and a novella), available for view on http://shiradest.wordpress.com/ in rough form, freely readable with Creative Commons copyrights. I hope that the ideas of community, cooperation, persistence, and resistance to exploitation live on through those words.
ShiraDestinie
U.N./Universal Date: Monday, October 23. 12014 H.E. (Holocene/Human Era)
(rmd from LinkedIn for Respectability… Read, Write, Dream, Teach !

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30 March, 2016 HE