Jack Murphy

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Joined the Marines in 1986 and went off to the war in Vietnam. Spent my full tour (13 months) in the mountains in and around the DMZ as a grunt. My tour in Vietnam was an experience I’ll never forget. I was one of the lucky one’s, I came home.

I was married in 1970 and had two children, who have their own beautiful families today. I started working as a construction worker, a stone derrick man on high-rise building. A few years later became a construction manager for a construction management firm.

After a few years of learning the business, I started my own construction firm and a finance company, in New York City.

Over the years I was fortunate to have the opportunely to travel the world and meet many interesting people of many cultures and backgrounds.

Now at the young age of sixty two, I have time on my side to do some writing about my country and some of the places I visited in my life. I would still like to visit many more places and who knows, maybe settle down in some remote part of the world.