S. P. Mclellan

I'Ve Known No War (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ive Known No War details the lifelong friendship of two native Texans who share a love of baseball, and both have amazing futures ahead of them. Stephen McClanahan, or Stevie Mac to his friends, was academically at the head of his class and had plans to attend the Ivy League School of his choice. His best friend, Theodore Teddy Smith, more affectionately known as Smitty, had been born with a natural gift to crush a baseball. Smitty was, in all likelihood, headed on the fast track to the major leagues and was most certainly slated to be a high draft pick in the June 2002 Major League Draft. The pair were having the time of their young lives as their senior year began in August 2001, and everything was perfect. Everything was perfect until the day it wasnt. September 11, 2001, forced most people to reevaluate things including a seventeen-year-old in Harbor Lake, Texas, with an Ivy League rsum. Perhaps his elite education could wait? His father, J. P. McClanahan, had served in the Marine Corps and had considered it an honor to wear USMC on his left breast pocket. Stevie had made his decision: he was going to enlist in a time when no draft existed and less than 1 percent of the US population was serving in a 100-percent-volunteer force. Surely everyone would think he was nuts, most especially his old friend Teddy. Initially, Teddy would attempt to talk some sense into his academically gifted friend, yet something was nagging at Smitty himself. Perhaps major league baseball could wait too? This is the story of unselfishness, courage, loyalty, and above all, friendship. Dreams can be put on hold, dreams can be shattered, and dreams can be forced to be reevaluated. This story is a reminder that someone must always be willing to go into harms way, and it cant always be someone elses kid!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781503581166
• Artikelnr.: 52565719

Autorenporträt

Stephen McLellan is a native of Houston, Texas, who has recently embarked on a second career as a middle school social studies teacher. He spent most of his adult life handling workers' compensation and maritime injury claims for various insurance companies while also serving twenty years in the United States Navy Reserve, retiring at the rank of chief petty officer. Stephen was recalled to active duty on three different occasions, including service in Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

His first book, I've Known No War, is based on his experiences growing up around competitive baseball in the Houston area and then subsequently serving in a combat theatre as part of the First Marine Division as an adult.

He has recently discovered a love of hiking and traveling by car, which he believes will greatly contribute to his future writing, combined with previous travels to such places as Africa, and the numerous people he has come to know through his variety of experiences.

Stephen has been a die-hard Houston Astros fan for as long as he can remember and is a huge fan of historical memoirs of previous veterans such as Islands of the Damned and The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966. Stephen; his wife, Hilary; and their son, Patrick, make their home just outside the gates of the Johnson Space Center near Houston.

His e-mail address is [e-mail], and he would love to hear of any suggestions from other history lovers regarding books to be read or stories absolutely worth researching.