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Dake, R. Dean

 
9781425106294: God's Overcoat Pocket

Synopsis

Learn what the Good Old Days are all about. Times were hard but it helped to laugh. Live or relive the Depression days - the labor & the love. Take a different look at the Korean War, and beyond.

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Biographie de l'auteur

The author was born Ronald Dean Dake, in Rural Michigan in the heart of the Great Depression. He enlisted into the Air Force during the Korean War, and after finishing Radio Operators School, was sent to Korea where he was detached to the 3rd Marine Corps Air Wing at Pohang. He served over 20 years on active duty with assignments to South Carolina, Bermuda, California, Texas, Mississippi, Germany, North Africa and Michigan with stops in Okinawa, England, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Canada, and 43 of the contiguous states. He worked over 20 years for the Veterans Administration (now known as The Department of Veterans Affairs). He was responsible for Investigating Fraud against the VA and he also supervised the estates of veterans determined to be mentally incompetent. Dake accepted the position of Executive Director of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society Headquarters and Museum aboard the U.S.S. Yorktown, a part of the Maritime Museum at Patriots Point, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, where he served 18 months. He is now semi-retired and living in West Columbia, South Carolina, where he spends his spare time playing the guitar, carving in wood, and riding his Kawasaki Vulcan 900LT.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Learn what the Good Old Days are all about. Times were hard but it helped to laugh. Live or relive the Depression days - the labor & the love. Take a different look at the Korean War, and beyond.

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