Anger Against the Flags
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About the Book
A long time ago during our father's generation a group of Scouts out camping decided to invade the domain of the nearby Army Cadet camp during their war games and absconded with those prizes of the flags that I incorporated in my story with the fictitious second set of flags.
I dedicate this book to Andy May who told me the story of the first set of stolen flags, and to David Bertram, my friend in the Fifth Avenue Cub Pack in Medicince hat, Alberta, who, if we had lived in Grande Prairie then, might have been part of those Scouts.
About the Author
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1940 to a Second World War naval veteran of the Murmansk Run, and his wife, I grew up there, in Medicine Hat and in Winnipeg before settling down in Kelowna in the mid 1908's where I set up and still operate the sale and trade of books at Pocket Book Shanty at 1852 Bylands Road on the Westside. Education - wise, I studied economics and sociology at the University of Manitoba.
In recreational endeavors, I excelled in chess and badminton, but not well enough to win a major tournament. As a child, I was a Cub and Scout, and much later served as a Cub leader for a decade. The closest I ever got to belonging to the armed forces was a brief stint as an air force cadet. Now, the only organization I belong to is the Westbank Lions Club. As for hobbies, I collect books, tape movies, listen to the War Years' Big Band music and bicycle.
This is my first book to be published out of the many I have written. Playing Cowboys and Indians as a child stirred by imagination to want to write and reading a great many books form other authors nurtured my belief that I could write better than them. My first book took ten years to write, but since then I have written at least one book a year.