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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. My New Life in Taekwondo began as one on the outside of Taekwondo. I was also on the outside of main stream America looking in. Back in 1963, I was a young black man, a senior at all black Woodstock High School, in Memphis, Tennessee. I wanted to write a senior term paper on the topic of the martial arts. My school had only a small library with a limited selection of books. There were no books on Karate, Taekwondo, Judo, Aikido, Tai Chi or Kung fu in the school library. In fact there were no books at all on martial arts. When I inquired concerning any other library that I could possibly use for my research, the school librarian, Mrs. R. J. Roddy, informed me that there was a public library in downtown Memphis, TN. It was a much bigger one, and it had a large selection of books on many topics, but it was "For Whites Only." Before I lost all hope for his term paper, Mrs. R. J. Roddy told me, she could call the librarian in the "whites only" library and see what books they had on the subject of Martial Arts. It turned out that there were quite a few books and magazine articles on the martial arts. The library sent over a two page list of titles. After looking through the list, I picked out some books that I thought I could use as references. Mrs. Roddy called back and told the librarian which books I would like to see. The books were sent to my school by special delivery chartered limousine. I do not remember whether these books were the only books sent to my school, but looking back, I am amazed at what lengths they were willing to go to keep me out of the Memphis Public Library. But unbeknownst to me and to everyone around me, a little seed was planted in my heart and soul. That seed grew and grew until it consumed my entire spirit. I would not rest; I could not be satisfied until I had satisfied that hunger deep in my soul for the Oriental Fighting Arts, particularly the Korean Killing art of Taekwondo. It was not until a few years later when I was a cadet at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) that the implications of the incident really hit home. I had been attending at an all white college and had access to a well stocked library, not like the small library at Woodstock High. The Woodstock library had little more than a few magazines, news papers, periodicals, and Readers' Digest Condensed Books. The more I used the library at the USCGA, the more I became aware of the great deprivation that I had suffered in high school in Memphis, TN. As a natural result Taekwondo and books became my passions. I read everything I could get my hands on. I purchased books on the martial arts and began to teach myself Taekwondo. I was sdetermined, but it was hopeless. I was fighting a losing battle. You cannot learn Taekwondo from a book. You need a teacher; a master teacher would be better. After I graduated from the USCGA in 1968 and was stationed in Long Beach, California I enrolled in Chuck Norris' Tang Soo Do School in Redondo Beach, CA. When I was transferred to Juneau, Alaska in 1970 I started teaching karate at Zack Gordan's Teen Center in Juneau. I went on to study other styles of martial arts. I studied Japanese, and Chinese fighting arts. When my family moved to Hungary I studied International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) Taekwondo, Kung Fu, and Tai Chi. I fought Ed Parker's karate tournaments in California. Eventually I fought full contact matches without protective gear, wearing only boxing gloves. In 1972 I fought in an Army/Navy/Marine Corps Open Invitational at the National Naval Medical Center. In that tournament we wore heavily padded Kendo gloves, helmets and chest gear. I won two First Place Trophies in sparring and Forms Competition. I was promoted to First Degree Black Belt in June 2012. I made Second Degree or Second Dan in October 2014. And in April 2017 I was promoted to Third Degree or Third Dan. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When President John F. Kennedy was ready to break the color barrier at the last of the nation's military service academies, London Steverson and Kenneth Boyd were ready to answer the call.President Kennedy's New Frontier was to push the envelope in areas of our national life that had not been reached during the terms of President Harry S. Truman or President Dwight D. Eisenhower. A Presidential Executive Order 9981 issued by President Truman had desegregated the armed forces on July 26, 1948, but the nation's military service academies were lagging far behind in officer recruiting. As a precursor to President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs (Head Start, Civil Rights Bill, Voting Rights Act, Medicare, and the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first Black Supreme Court Justice) President Kennedy challenged the U. S. Coast Guard Academy to tender appointments to Black high school students.Steverson and Boyd were the first Black students to accept a Principal Appointment in response to the increased emphasis on minority cadet recruiting. They were sworn in on June 10, 1964 in front of Hamilton Hall at the Coast Guard Academy. They were the only Black cadets in the Academy Class of 1968.This was a small step for the Coast Guard Academy, but it was a giant step for Black Americans in the armed forces. It did not however amount to full Integration. At most, this was Desegregation.Two or three Black cadets out of a student body of about two thousand was not full integration. The presence of these token Black cadets did not affect the historical normal operations of the Coast Guard at all. These tokens were treated as honorary white cadets. At all social events, mixers, and athletic parties, the Social Hostess, Miss Judy Sinton, never provided any Black females. The Black cadets were allowed, even required, to choose escorts from the girls provided.Finally, here it is, the Pleasure and the Pain. The Road was rough. The going was tough. Divine Intervention was sometimes necessary. Thick Skin was a Blessing. Progress was made in the area of Minority Recruiting.In 1974 Steverson set a new Record for the number of Black American Cadets recruited. There were 28 in the Class of 1974. One was Manson K Brown. He went on to become the First Vice Admiral in Coast Guard History.Steverson went on to become a Law Specialist. He represented the first Female Officer, LTJG Christine Balboni, subjected to Sexual Harassment on a Coast Guard Ship, the USCGC Rush.LCDR London Steverson would become the first African American Coast Guard Academy graduate to retire after 20 years of active duty as a Regular Line Officer in June 1988.President John F. Kennedy had a closer relationship with the Coast Guard Academy (CGA) than with any other military academy. He kept his personal yacht at the CGA boat docks. It was the Coast Guard Yacht Manitou. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This is the Story of Lieutenant Colonel Lance Annicelli, United States Air Force. It is told in the first person in his own words. No one could tell his story better. What comes across in his telling of this unbelievable nightmare is his decency, compassion, and plain speaking. This is also a shocking story. It is frank and honest but with an under tone of anger. It cuts against the grain; it strains credulity. It is one of many similar stories being told concerning the purge of the American military senior officer corps during the period between 2008 and 2016. In American History, this period is known as the Time of The Obama Administration. Colonel Annicelli was the embodiment of the American Dream. He was a success story. He had risen to dazzling heights. He had a traditional American Family. His life story and record of achievement was anathema to the radical Liberal Left. He became a target and collateral damage in a Culture War. Colonel Annicelli had achieved his success the old fashioned way; he had earned it through hard work and higher education. He believed in strict discipline, personal responsibility, and individual accountability. His style of leadership had resulted in his meteoric rise through the ranks. To many in the modern military it was out of fashion and reprehensible. When he found himself commanding a company of marginally qualified slackers, they closed ranks against him in an undeclared conspiracy. His curriculum vitae was threatening to his new Supervisor. The malcontents circled the wagons and undermined the his authority. He was not a Toxic Leader. He was a traditional leader. He expected his orders to be obeyed. He expected seniors officers above him in the Chain-of-command to support his authority. He found that arm-chair senior officers would do whatever was expedient to get promoted. Their loyalty was not to traditional military values, but to personal friendships. Colonel Annicelli was swimming against the tide. This Top Gun pilot was flying into a strong headwind. Some senior officers in Obama's Military had reversed the flow of the river. The Liberal Social agenda had caused many to look at the World through the wrong end of the telescope. They had become accustomed to "Leading From Behind," as their Commander-in-Chief had so often advocated on the World stage. The Air Force abandoned him. Many distinguished senior officers were purged from all branches of the American military services during the period 2008 to 2016. What was a noticeable purge of commanders, by 2016 had topped 250. In isolation, if one were to look at each of these cases individually, it would at first appear that these officers were singled out for their own personal transgressions. But taken together and looked at as a whole, it appears that there was something more sinister at work. There was a Cultural War going on. The extreme political Left had declared war on traditional America. What appeared to be "social engineering" was in fact a full frontal attack on our most sacred and cherished institutions; such as, the core values of the American Military (duty, honor, loyalty, moral purity), the traditional heterosexual family, Judeo-Christian values, morality, the heterosexual white American male, free speech, respect for each other, religious tolerance, and gender separation. The family, the church, and the military were the three institutional pillars of American Culture. The virtues we hold sacred were imbedded in these institutions. George Washington, John Adams and Abraham Lincoln have all noted in one form or another that, "Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Until we accept that as a nation, we are destined to continue to flail about rudderless in a tempestuous sea. The Story of Colonel Lance Annicelli is a window i Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Judge London Steverson has written the story of his life. Trying to write a book about my life is like trying to describe the landscape by looking out the window of a moving train. The events continue to unfold faster than one can describe them. My life is a work in progress. For this reason I have decided to look at my life in phases that have a clearly defined beginning and an end. In this book I intend to describe that part of my life that was shaped by my involvement in the Martial Arts. IN A NUT SHELL I, London Eugene Livingston Steverson retired from the United States Coast Guard in 1988 as a Lieutenant Commander (LCDR). Later, I retired from the Social Security Administration (SSA) as the Senior Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) in the Office of Disability Appeals and Review (ODAR) Downey, California. In 1964, I was one of the first two African Americans to receive an Appointment as a Cadet to the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. I graduated in 1968. After two years at sea on an Icebreaker, the USCGC Glacier (WAGB-4), and another two years as a Search and Rescue Operations Officer in the 17th Coast Guard District Juneau, Alaska, I was appointed Chief of the newly formed Minority Recruiting Section in the Office of Personnel at Coast Guard Headquarters, 7th and D Street, SW, in Washington, DC. My primary duty was to recruit Black High School graduates for the Coast Guard Academy. This was my passion, so I set about this in a most vigorous manner. I have written several books concerning Military Justice, famous Courts-martial Cases, and Social Security Disability Determination Cases. I am a retired member of the New York State Bar Association, The Association of The Bar of The City of New York, and The Tennessee Bar Associations. A Presidential Executive Order issued by President Harry Truman had desegregated the armed forces in 1948, but the military academies lagged far behind in officer recruiting. President John F. Kennedy specifically challenged the Coast Guard Academy to increase appointments to qualified Black American high school students. I was one of the first Black High School students to be offered such an appointment in 1964. I had a Black classmate from New Jersey, Kenny Boyd. We would become known as "The Kennedy Cadets", because the pressure to recruit us originated with President John F. Kennedy. On June 4, 1968, I graduated from the Coast Guard Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and a commission as an Ensign in the U.S. Coast Guard. My first duty assignment out of the Academy was in Antarctic research logistical support. In July 1968 I reported aboard the Coast Guard Cutter (CGC) Glacier (WAGB-4), an icebreaker operating under the control of the U.S. Navy. I served as a deck watch officer and head of the Marine Science Department. I traveled to Antarctica during two patrols from July 1968 to August 1969, supporting the research operations of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Research Project in and around McMurdo Station. In 1974, while still an active duty member of the Coast Guard, I entered The National Law Center of The George Washington University. I graduated in 1977 with a Juris Doctor of Laws Degree. I worked as a Law Specialist in the 12th Coast Guard District Office, San Francisco, California and as an Assistant U. S. Attorney for the collection of Civil Penalties under the Federal Boating Safety Act from 1979 to 1982. As Assistant District Legal Officer, I was required to defend as well as prosecute military members who had been charged with violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Occasionally I was asked to represent other officers in administrative actions involving sexual harassment and discrimination. One such case was the Case of Christine D. Balboni Ensign (ENS) Balboni was one of the first f Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. We, as Americans, cherish fairness. We like to believe that people are not punished or unjustly rewarded without justifiable cause. We like to dwell on parables of white virtue and black advancement culminating in the flowering of goodwill all around. Events sometimes force us to widen our gaze and focus on terrain we would rather not see. The 2006 court-martial of Cadet Webster Smith at the United States Coast Guard Academy did just that. The Webster Smith case was a litmus test for justice in America. Every once in a while a case comes along that puts our humanity as a people, and as Americans, on trial. Everything that we profess to stand for as Americans was on trial. Our sense of justice in America and particularly in the U.S. Military was on trial. This was no ordinary trial. Our humanity was on trial. Our system of justice was on trial. This case dissolved the deceptive facade and exposed certain moral deficiencies in our system of justice. This case alone puts the legitimacy of the entire military justice system at risk. We now see that there is little or no justice in military justice. Any reasonable person who looks at this case or any other high profile military justice case would have to conclude that the Military Justice System is not designed to render justice. It is a system designed to punish. The entire courts-martial system, from Summary Court-martial to General Court-martial, has one specific purpose; that is to punish anyone who commits an offense against the Uniform Code of Military Justice. This is intended to be the definitive word on the first and only court-martial of a United States Coast Guard Academy cadet. This Case is unique in that this has never happened before. No other Coast Guard Academy Cadet has ever been punished at a General Courts-martial. That is saying a lot for an institution that has been around since 1876. Also, it has been ten years since the trial and conviction. An entire decade has passed. The sentence has been served. The Supreme Court Petition for A Writ of Certiorari has been denied. The Record is complete. Cadet Smith was a senior when the trial began. He was within months of graduating from the Academy, but he was expelled. No Clemency was granted. His career was ruined. His life was irreparably harmed. For ten years he was required to register in the State of Texas as a Sexual offender. He married, had children, and for ten years he was not allowed to attend the birthday parties of his children. What distinguishes this book from other books on the Case is that this book distinguishes how the Coast Guard Legal Officers and the senior Academy officers disposed of this case as opposed to other cases with similar fact patterns. This Case will serve as a witness to an era in the United States Military and its Service Academies that was ripe with cultural and ethical upheavals, proceedings with plenty of due process and little justice, sexual assaults in the military, retaliation against whistleblowers, mind blowing results, aggravation and frustration. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The court-martial of Cadet Webster Smith was a litmus test for justice in America. This book will tell you what happened, and who did what to whom and where. It will not tell you why. It cannot. You must determine your own why. This book will give you the facts. You can determine your own opinion of why this case developed and progressed as it did. Good reading. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This is the ultimate insider's guide to the Social Security Disability Determination System. This book explains the Five Step Disability Evaluation Process and attempts to explain why the System does not work as it was intended. It describes the rules, regulations, exceptions, and court decisions that determine the outcome of an application for disability benefits. This is not another "how to" book about filing for Social Security disability benefits. This book is about how the system works. It concerns the nature of the Social Security Disability Determination process. Written by a veteran Social Security Judge this book will simplify the process and make the Social Security Disability Process work for you. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.