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Power Check---Commo Check: My Tour in Viet Nam - Softcover

White, Hampden

 
9780595417384: Power Check---Commo Check: My Tour in Viet Nam

Synopsis

Is there something out there, not in the spiritual world, but the product of applied science, that can direct and influence your lifetime events and experiences? The author tells how this may have been the case in the context of his having served in a lawyer's position in the U. S. Army during the last two years of the Viet Nam conflict. It recounts his military criminal trial and general life experiences, many of which are rather bizarre, while in Long Binh Post Viet Nam. His conclusions give a greatly expansive insight to a soldier's conversational comment, Power Check---Commo Check.CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)

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About the Author

Mr. White was born in Baton Rouge, LA, on April 13, 1944, of his father, John S. White, Sr.,who also sired his two brothers and a sister. The father was at the time an accountant atthe Exxon Refinery in Baton Rouge, who had risen from an office clerk, with no collegeeducation, to ultimately be the Chief Accountant for the plant, before he became the head ofthe Business Service Division of the plant, supervising all services that were not productiondepartments (accounting, office services, electronic data processing, food service, etc.). His mother was always a housewife, who reared the three brothers and sister. Bothparents were strong Christian believers, all in the local First Presbyterian Church in town. The oldest brother became a successful lawyer in Baton Rouge, graduating from the LSULaw Center as the top student academically. He later became an elder in the PresbyterianChurch for a time, after serving as deacon. The author also was made an elder in thatchurch, after also being a deacon. The middle brother works in a bond prospectusbusiness, with close connections to a bond attorney law firm. He became an elder, afterserving as a deacon, in the St. Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church in New Orleans wherehis business was located, until the flooding by hurricane Katrina forced his business tomove to Baton Rouge. The sister married and had two children, but she died in her early40s of encephalitis. Mr. White attended the public schools in Baton Rouge, until he graduated from BatonRouge High School 10th in a class of over 420 students. He was active in athletics, playingbaseball and basketball. He was a reserve on the state championship basketball teamwhen he was a junior, and made the coaches' 10 man All State first team and thesportswriters' five man All State second team his senior year. He was also the studentgovernment association president his senior year. In 1962 he entered LSU in Baton Rouge as a freshman, and made the freshmanbasketball team as a walk-

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