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Jered
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I just finished A Plague Upon Humanity. Some of the things that the Japanese did are kind of messed up.

Reading a Star Trek Department of Temporal Investigations book.
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308Mike wrote:
First Shirt wrote:It's nice to learn something new about the area where you've lived most of your life.
Agreed! It's one of the reasons I like history so much, and there are LOTS of places with interesting history here in the USA!
Agreed! What's the use of living somewhere and not knowing anything about it?

I finished "With the Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge, "My Helmet for my Pillow" by Richard Leckie,
and am currently in the middle of Stephen Ambrose's WW2 biography of Eisenhower.
And in the warmup ring, I have a picture book on the Pacific Coast Highway and IIRC a book on Santa Monica Bay, which upon cursory examination doesn't appear to include anything south of Marina del Rey. :o
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Last of the Breed, by Louis L'Amour. It's a good yarn, but not as wildly riveting as I'd been led to believe.
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308Mike wrote:From what I've seen and read, people who like and enjoy reading are far less likely to suffer from dementia than those who prefer to be entertained.
Considering the fate of various relatives, that is a comfort.

And yes, watching the people with dementia try to think is like waiting for a lightswitch to go on for a moment or two, or as I referred to it watching my father, kind of like the battle in the cloud in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan. Sometimes the static would subside enough to see something.
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I'm reading FM-100-2-1 The Soviet Army, Operations and Tactics

Also Helter Skelter ( Manson Family ), but I'm getting very bored with that, don't think I'll finish it.
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Finished reading Thunder Run by David Zucchino. About the 3rd Infantry Division's attack on Baghdad. Rereading Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden. Wasn't paying a lot of attention the first time I read it but I'm slowing down this time and, boy, what a clusterf*** that operation was.
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Rod wrote:Finished reading Thunder Run by David Zucchino. About the 3rd Infantry Division's attack on Baghdad. Rereading Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden. Wasn't paying a lot of attention the first time I read it but I'm slowing down this time and, boy, what a clusterf*** that operation was.
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I'm about halfway or so through the third Game of Thrones book and OMFG! THEY KILLED EVERYBODY!!! JFC! WHAT THE HELL?!!! What's left for the last book and a half??? :( :shock: :shock: :cry: Wait, don't tell me!
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Darrell wrote:I'm about halfway or so through the third Game of Thrones book and OMFG! THEY KILLED EVERYBODY!!! JFC! WHAT THE HELL?!!! What's left for the last book and a half??? :( :shock: :shock: :cry: Wait, don't tell me!
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I just finished the classic WW1 trench warfare book "Sniper Jackson" by Frederick Sleath of a Scot battalion's sniper squad...Damn interesting read the second time--about 10 years ago--and even more interesting this time...It's available from the Internet Archive for free in a PDF and other file types.
http://archive.org/stream/sniperjackson ... 4/mode/2up

They also have:
"Sniping in France" by Major H. Hesketh-Prichard - The bible from whence it all started
http://archive.org/stream/cu31924027946 ... 0/mode/2up

"The Emma Gees" by Capt. Herbert W. McBride although his "A Rifleman Went To War" is the better book and where they publishers pulled this book from.
http://archive.org/stream/emmagees00mcb ... 9/mode/2up

"Sharpshooting for Sport and War" by W. W. Greener -- great shooting book
http://archive.org/stream/sharpshooting ... 5/mode/2up
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