Fifteen Minutes Ago

Fifteen Minutes Ago
Author :
Publisher : Mill City Press, Incorporated
Total Pages : 172
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1635056365
ISBN-13 : 9781635056365
Rating : 4/5 (365 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Fifteen Minutes Ago by : Craig Tschetter

Download or read book Fifteen Minutes Ago written by Craig Tschetter and published by Mill City Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Memoir: A innocent 18 year old leaves home to join the military during a time of war. He leaves because he can no longer live with the religious mandates imposed by his parents Mennonite faith. The Marine Corps boot camp and further training leave him filled with fear, uncertainty, and yet as a marine filled with pride. He serves 20 months in Vietnam during the height of the war (67-69) as a combat radio operator. Wounded twice, forced to witness a haunting murder, and living one day at a time he struggles to meet the date he can leave Vietnam. Finally he is sent to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, CA to become a Drill Instructor. After training seven platoons of raw recruit to face the hostile environment he left he is discharged after 4 years of a honorable decorated service. He marries, starts a family, earns his college degree while facing the hostile professors and student body in protest over the war he so valiantly fought. Years pass before he falls into a deep dark hole of depression. Obsessed with memories of Vietnam that won't leave him alone he see suicide as his only reprieve. Afraid of what he might do he finds help thru the local Veterans Hospital. No one but his wife understands the life he live and the medications required to keep him level. His family and friends see him as a happy, success former marine living life's dream. Little does anyone know the torment he's forced to live with everyday. When people ask him when he was in Vietnam, he responds by saying from November 1967 - July 1969. What he really wants to tell them is: 15 MINUTES AGO. CRAIG TSCHETTER, writes vividly about being raised by parents of strict Mennonite faith and his struggles to deal with their religious mandates. Enlisting in the Marine Corps to escape home he finds himself in the jungles of Vietnam for 20 months and then at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, CA as a Drill Instructor. Educated with a degree in Mortuary Science he spends the next 34 years are spent in the funeral service industry. Craig and his wife, Della, live in Brookings, SD and have two children. Their daughter and granddaughter reside in Florida and their son in Oregon.


Fifteen Minutes Ago Related Books

Fifteen Minutes Ago
Language: en
Pages: 172
Authors: Craig Tschetter
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-12 - Publisher: Mill City Press, Incorporated

GET EBOOK

A Memoir: A innocent 18 year old leaves home to join the military during a time of war. He leaves because he can no longer live with the religious mandates impo
Every Fifteen Minutes
Language: en
Pages: 446
Authors: Lisa Scottoline
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-14 - Publisher: St. Martin's Press

GET EBOOK

New York Times best selling author Lisa Scottoline's visceral thriller, Every Fifteen Minutes, brings you into the grip of a true sociopath and shows you how, i
Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Dale Patterson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-22 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Over 150 regular folks getting their time in the spotlight--some are heroes, some are far from that. But they all share one thing in common: they weren't planni
Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: Joan Bolker
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-08-15 - Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

GET EBOOK

Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well a
15 Minutes of Play
Language: en
Pages: 100
Authors: Victoria Findlay Wolfe
Categories: Crafts & Hobbies
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc

GET EBOOK

This title presents improvisational piecing reinvented: learn how to create your own creatively-collaged swatches of fabric in just 15 minutes a day.