Been many years since I made a post on the board. My first post is on page 104 and I think I joined the board back in 2014. I think that first post has many hits since then; over 12,000 I think. One of the post on that thread was made by VaMark and he asked me if I ever wrote a book. I never replied to VaMark and at that time I had not written a published book. Let me tell you all a little story. I had joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1963. In 1965 I was stationed in Atsugi Japan when the Gulf of Tonkin occurred. My Unit was ordered down to Vietnam and we arrived in I think June 1965. I returned to the States in the spring of 1966. In 1967 I was working for Lee Carpet Co. and because I was the only off line data processing clerk who had his military service completed I was promoted over the other 13 clerks to a computer operator on a 360 IBM system. After some schooling I was assigned to the night shift where I soon found out consisted of running long, long programs on the 12 tape drives. Very little actual work but change out tapes about one every hour. It didn't take me long to figure out I needed to do something while sitting at my desk at night so I would not go to sleep. So I began writing a book based on the stories I was told from the front line Marines while over in Vietnam. I finished the book in 1968 and asked my brother; who is a graduate of the Naval Academy if he would edit the book for me. I sent it to him; which was the only typed copy of the book, and right after he received it his wife came down with cancer. She passed away about a year later and my brother sold his house and moved. In the time lapse my book was lost. Well at the end of last year Jim had gone up into the attic over his garage and found some old boxes. In one of the boxes he found my book!!! Not saying a word to me Jim edited the book, his new wife typed the book; my daughter came home for Christmas last year and went into my box of photo's from Vietnam and sent him pictures of me at that time. Jim put every thing together and designed a book cover and got it copy-righted. He sent it off to Amazon and in May of this year Amazon printed what is called the "Author's Copy". It was now time for any finial changes to the book before it would be placed onto the market. It was at this time I was told by Jim what was going on and that he was sending me the copy for my finial review. That has all been done and the book; which is Titled; "We Will Hit"is available on Amazon Book Store. Author: Andrew Carl Clayton How's about that. I wrote the book when I was 23 years old and it is just now published and I'm 76 right now. So my answer to VaMark is; Yes Mark I have wrote a book.Acey
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