Book details

  • Genre:history
  • Sub-genre:Military / World War II
  • Language:English
  • Pages:320
  • Paperback ISBN:9781667898254

To the Front - Student Edition

Grandfathers’ Stories in the Cause of Freedom

By Michael M. Van Ness, M.D.

Overview

Growing up, I was surrounded by military heroes. Herein are the stories they told of the rocky road traveled in the cause of freedom.
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Description

While I grew up amongst military heroes, I was too young to know it. Now that I am older and the heroes of my childhood are gone, their stories endure. Although it is too late to ask them questions, it is not too late to learn from their lives. "They preached sermons with their lives."
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About The Author

Michael Van Ness was born into a military family. Raised in Washington, DC, and educated at the Landon School for Boys, Yale College, and the University of Virginia School of Medicine, he joined the Navy, served aboard USS Sylvania out of Norfolk, and was on staff at Bethesda Naval Hospital for eight years before founding a successful gastroenterology practice in Canton, Ohio. He has co-authored two medical texts, numerous medical articles, and a biography entitled General in Command: The Life of Major General John B. Anderson from Iowa Farm to Command of the Largest Combat Corps in World War II.
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