Woe Is Me, Woe Is Me

About the Book

This is a non-fictitious trip of nostalgia. Recollections emanate from the mind of an individual Marine while alone in a tavern. As drinks are consumed, his thoughts become labored to capture events in a proper sequence and perspective. Determinedly he recalls them all. These accounts of extremely rare occurrences present odd humor amid the tough circumstance of the Marine Corps. This book is personally illustrated by the author to utmost factuality, giving true clarity to the entire story and those individuals portrayed.

About the Author

A desperate, highnoon birth in a small house on a West Virginia hillside, now gone, begat a sweet faced beggar of pennies for Saturday movie shows ten years hence. The movie theater is gone, so is the mill town in Maryland where the same young lad graduated from a razed high school. The steel mills, Marine Corps, and Air Force further tempered the multi-faceted, artistic fellow into a person desirous of putting some parts of a life into words and drawings to entertain and enlighten. "I had better hurry, at 72 my world is fast disappearing!"